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Librarians or readers unfamiliar with Protocol should make its acquaintance, since it not only contains fascinating information but provides a glimpse into the lives of the great and powerful. An exceedingly exalted guide to etiquette, it sets out to specify the behavior that is demanded of that razor-thin assembly of important personages who inhabit the very top of the political chain. But while most books of etiquette are motivated by a decent respect for other peoples' sensibilities, Protocol is concerned with the preservation of rank. It consequently pays careful attention to the order of precedence to be observed at ceremonies, dinners, and other official functions; to titles and forms of address to be accorded important persons (143 pages); to table seating arrangements (with diagrams); to the proper forms for calling cards and for invitations and replies (even--horrors!--the form for withdrawing an invitation already tendered); and like matters. Ordinary citizens, secure in the certainty that not everyone worth knowing holds high office, need never give thought to whether someone less important has gotten ahead in line, whether we are addressed by the title our office merits, or that we may be stricken from the list for a state dinner because we are found undeserving or someone of greater importance has been secured in our place. We possess instead the inestimably precious gift of privacy, which allows us to walk about the streets in blissful obscurity, undisturbed by admiring throngs or by squads of paparazzi, free of the strictures that hedge about the lives of the mighty. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. All collections. R. Balay Choice

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Mary Jane McCaffree Monroe was born Mary Jane Fleming in New York City on October 28, 1911. She did secretarial work related to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair and was a secretary at a steel company and a distillery before serving as personal secretary to Mamie Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential campaign. McCaffree Monroe served as White House social secretary and the first lady's personal and press secretary throughout President Dwight D. Eisenhower's two terms. From 1971 to 1975, she was a protocol specialist in the Office of the Chief of Protocol. Her book, Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official and Social Usage written with Pauline Innis, was published in 1977. She died on July 23, 2018 at the age of 106.

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