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Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

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Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

â€œDeccaâ€ Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracyâ€”one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sistersâ€”she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchillâ€™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 exposÃ©, 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 lettersâ€”now gathered here.

Deccaâ€™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 Deccaâ€™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, â€œHer favorite drink is gin and tonic, her least favorite food, trip. Her heroine is Jessica Mitford.â€

Country	USA
Author	Jessica Mitford
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780375410321
Edition	First Edition
Format	Deckle Edge
ISBN	0375410325
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	768
PublicationDate	2006-10-17
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2006-10-17
Studio	Knopf

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