How Long to Read The Polite Americans

How Long Does it Take to Read The Polite Americans?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 58 minutes to read The Polite Americans by Gerald Carson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Americans have traveled a far piece since Goody Randall climbed over the back of a Bay Colony pew in defense of her social position, or a frontier Congressman tried to eat the doilies at a White House dinner, or, more recently, since the adjustable Emily Post interpreted the social law on whether a lady’s maid could appear in bobbed hair. (She could not!) With unfailing scholarship, great good humor and occasional overtones of irony when snobbery raises its ugly nose, Gerald Carson here portrays the journey of American manners through shifting tastes and customs in regards to weddings, dances, hair styles, drinking, dueling, dress, smoking, the telephone, the automobile, the rise of the country club and the history of the fraternal lodge, among hundreds of topics. There is much of special interest to citizens of Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York and many other cities. There is a full chapter on manners in the nation’s capital as well as one on books of etiquette. The author’s emphasis is upon the middle class, the mainstream of America’s national life, rather than Society with the capital S. This field has been plowed a good many times, while Mr. Carson’s area is almost untouched. His central theme is the reaching out of the American man and woman for self-improvement and a life of some grace. Citizens of the United States are still free to become, as the late Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger pointed out, as unequal as they can.

How long is The Polite Americans?

The Polite Americans by Gerald Carson is 473 pages long, and a total of 119,669 words.

This makes it 160% the length of the average book. It also has 146% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Polite Americans Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 53 minutes to read The Polite Americans aloud.

What Reading Level is The Polite Americans?

The Polite Americans is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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