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Irrepressible: The Life And Times Of Jessica Mitford (2011)

by Leslie Brody(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

158243767X (ISBN13: 9781582437675)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Counterpoint

review 1: For me, growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 60s and 70s, Jessica Mitford was a goddess of smart, scathingly funny yet solid journalism, daring to illuminate the foolishness and hypocrisy to be found in the conventions of American life. Her expose of the funeral industry and her collection titled "Poison Penmanship" have been a lifelong inspiration to me as a journalist and author. That she is hardly known today is criminal. That Leslie Brody wrote this wonderful biography of her is a triumph! As a culture we need to remember Ms. Mitford and this book is a grand tribute to her.
review 2: I waited to finish reading The Sisters about all the Mitford daughters before I completed this biogrphy of Jessica, who was certainly my favorite of the clan. Despi... morete an aristocratic English upbringing, she ran away to join the International Brigade to fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War with the man who was to be her first husband; after his death in WW II joined the Communist Party, became an American citizen and married a Harvard-educated lawyer(his was the law firm that gave Hillary Clinton an internship); was active throughout her life in the civil rights and peace movements; and became a respected journalist who exposed the worst practices of the funeral industry in the American Way of Death. This was a fine biography and companion piece to Mary Lovell's study of the six sisters. less

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