DECCA: The Letters of Jessica Mitford (First Edition)

Jessica Mitford (author); Peter Y. Sussman (editor)

ISBN 10: 0375410325 / ISBN 13: 9780375410321

Edité par Knopf (New York), 2006

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New York: Knopf, 2006. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with bruise to lower corner. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, unread copy. Octavo, 744 pages; index. "Decca" brings together Jessica Mitford s correspondence from 1924 to 1996 spanning her escape from British aristocratic life, participation in the Spanish Civil War, marriage to activist Robert Treuhaft, dedication to the American Communist Party, and groundbreaking investigative career, including "The American Way of Death." The letters offer a candid, humorous, and piercingly intelligent view into her private and political life. Mitford (1917 1996), the sixth of the famed Mitford sisters, was a British-born journalist, memoirist, and one of the great muckrakers of the twentieth century. This was the first comprehensive collection of her letters. She is best known for "The American Way of Death," her bestselling exposé of the funeral industry, as well as for "Hons and Rebels," "Kind and Usual Punishment," and "Poison Penmanship." FERRY-NONFICTION.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: DECCA: The Letters of Jessica Mitford (First Edition)
• Éditeur: Knopf (New York)
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0375410325
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780375410321
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New

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Synopsis

“Decca” Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill’s nephew, then came to America, became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party, and embarked on a brilliant career as a memoirist and muckraking journalist (her funeral-industry exposé, The American Way of Death, became an instant classic). She was a celebrated wit, a charmer, and throughout her life a prolific and passionate writer of letters—now gathered here.

Decca’s correspondence crackles with irreverent humor and mischief, and with acute insight into human behavior (and misbehavior) that attests to her generous experience of the worlds of politics, the arts, journalism, publishing, and high and low society. Here is correspondence with everyone from Katharine Graham and George Jackson, Betty Friedan, Miss Manners, Julie Andrews, Maya Angelou, Harry Truman, and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Decca’s sisters the Duchess of Devonshire and the novelist Nancy Mitford, her parents, her husbands, her children, and her grandchildren.

In a profile of J.K. Rowling, The Daily Telegraph (UK), said, “Her favorite drink is gin and tonic, her least favorite food, trip. Her heroine is Jessica Mitford.”

À propos de l?auteur

Jessica Mitford is also the author of Hons and Rebels (previously published as Daughters and Rebels), The American Way of Death, The Trial of Dr. Spock, Kind and Usual Punishment, A Fine Old Conflict, Poison Penmanship, Faces of Philip: A Memoir of Philip Toynbee, Grace Had an English Heart, and The American Way of Birth. Until her death in 1996, she lived in Oakland, California, with her husband, labor lawyer Robert Treuhaft.

Peter Y. Sussman was an award-winning editor at the San Francisco Chronicle from 1964 to 1993 and has written, edited, taught, and lectured widely since then. He is the coauthor of Committing Journalism and was a coauthor of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics. He lives in Berkeley, California.