radio programs and wrote a column on good taste for the Bell Syndicate. The column appeared daily in over 200 newspapers after 1932. In her review of Claridge's 2008 biography of Post, The New York Times Dinitia Smith explains the keys to Post's popularity: Such books had always been popular in America: the country’s exotic mix of immigrants and newly rich were eager to fit in with the establishment. Men had to be taught not to blow their noses into their hands or to spit tobacco onto ladies’ backs. Arthur M. Schlesinger, who wrote “Learning How to Behave: A Historical Study of American Etiquette Books” in 1946, said that etiquette books were part of “the leveling-up process of democracy,” an attempt to resolve the conflict between the democratic ideal and the reality of class. But Post’s etiquette books went far beyond those of her predecessors. They read like short-story collections with recurring characters, the Toploftys, the Eminents, the Richan Vulgars, the Gildings and the Kindharts. In 1946, Post founded The Emily Post Institute, which continues her work. Death Post died in her New York City apartment in 1960 at the age of 87. She is buried in the cemetery at St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo Episcopal Church in Tuxedo Park, New York. Cultural legacy A portrait of Emily Post by Emil Fuchs (ca. 1906) is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Frank Tashlin featured Post's caricature emerging from her etiquette book and scolding England's King Henry VIII about his lack of manners in the cartoon Have You Got Any Castles? (1938). Pageant in 1950 named her the second most powerful woman in America, after Eleanor Roosevelt. On May 28, 1998, the United States Postal Service issued a 32¢ stamp featuring Post as part of their Celebrate the Century stamp sheet series. In 2008 Laura Claridge published Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners, the first full-length biography of the author. See also Adolph Freiherr Knigge Amy Vanderbilt Book of the Civilized Man Brad Templeton—who posted Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on netiquette on Usenet Letitia Baldrige Miss Manners Miss Porter's School Lillian Eichler Watson—Post's primary competitor from the 1920s through the 1950s Notes References Further reading Claridge, Laura. Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners (Random House, 2008), a standard biography Gale, Robert L. "Post, Emily" American National Biography (1999) online, a short scholarly