Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
by Edited by Sussman, Peter Y
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0297607456
- ISBN 13
- 9780297607458
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"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 expose, 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."From the Hardcover edition.
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- Strawberry Hill Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018993
- Title
- Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
- Author
- Edited by Sussman, Peter Y
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0297607456
- ISBN 13
- 9780297607458
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- large Octavo
- X weight
- 0 oz
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