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amazing graces; Women who took matters into their own hands dominate the season's notable nonfiction.(The Letters of Jessica Mitford)(Book review)
Byline: Megan O'grady
Of all the storied Mitfords, Jessica was the renegade, eloping at nineteen and becoming an activist. Edited by Peter Y. Sussman, Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford (Knopf) captures history's most charming muckraker, from her friendships with Katharine Graham and Maya Angelou to her devotion to civil rights, which led to a subpoena to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee-an experience she later listed under Honors, Awards, and Prizes on her resume. Art-world revolutionary Edith Gregor Halpert is the intriguing subject of The Girl with the Gallery (PublicAffairs), in which Lindsay Pollock recounts how an intrepid 26-year-old from Odessa became a champion of American modernism. Enlightenment-era theoretician Emilie du Ch,telet is better known for her affair with Voltaire than for her groundbreaking work in Newtonian physics, but as David Bodanis's Passionate Minds (Crown) argues-and Voltaire was displeased to discover-hers was the more scientific intellect. In Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Nan A. ...
- 'Sociology: The American Way of Death Revisited,' by Jessica Mitford; Knopf...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Leardi, Jeanette September 30, 1998 700+ words
...Way of Death is alive and well. Unfortunately. So says Jessica Mitford, who 35 years ago coined this phrase in her stunning indictment...groups throughout the U.S. and Canada closes the book. Jessica Mitford died July 23, 1996, shortly before completing her revised...
- Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly July 31, 2006 700+ words
* Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford EDITED BY PETER Y. SUSSMAN. Knopf, $35 (800p) ISBN 0-375-41032-5 Best...industry expose, The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) was fifth of the famous Mitford...
- Total optimism reigned.(Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Atkinson, Clarissa July 1, 2007 700+ words
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford Edited by Peter Y. Sussman New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, 744 pp., $35.00, hardcover...the Communist Party of the United States, Jessica Mitford was an unlikely, even outlandish, presence...
- Decca; the letters of Jessica Mitford.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2007 700+ words
0375410325 Decca; the letters of Jessica Mitford. Mitford, Jessica. Ed. by Peter Y. Sussman. Alfred A. Knopf 2006 744 pages $35.00 Hardcover HX84 These letters reflect the humor and wide-ranging curiosity that propelled Mitford through...
- Mitford, Jessica. Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford.(Brief article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Booklist Leber, Michele September 15, 2006 700+ words
* Mitford, Jessica. Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford. Ed. by Peter Y. Sussman. Oct. 2006. 723p. illus. Knopf, $35 (0-375-41032-5). 335.43. Fifth of the noted Mitford sisters, Jessica (called Decca since childhood...
- A very honourable rebel.(Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Spectator Chisholm, Anne December 2, 2006 700+ words
DECCA : THE LETTERS OF JESSICA MITFORD edited by Peter Y. Sussman Weidenfeld, [pounds sterling...2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 In the autumn of 1995 Jessica Mitford, the youngest of the sisters, known to one and all since...
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- Magazine article from: Vanity Fair Schappell, Elissa October 1, 2006 700+ words
...letters of indomitable activist Jessica Mitford, affectionately known as Decca (Knopf). Screamingly funny Amy...call her a Cancer Vixen (Knopf). In Heidi Julavits's...Things I Didn't Know (Knopf), from critic Robert Hughes...
- Revised book reveals dark side of funeral industry.(Originated from Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service McUsic, Teresa September 30, 1998 700+ words
...preoccupied with price, profit, selling techniques,'' who wrote Jessica Mitford the definitive industry expose, ``The American Way of Death...called ``The American Way of Death Revisited'' (Alfred A. Knopf, 296 pages, $25). In her cut-to-the-chase style...
- THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH REVISITED.(Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly May 18, 1998 700+ words
Jessica Mitford. Knopf, $25 (290p) ISBN 0-679-45037-8 At the time of her death in 1996, Mitford had nearly completed this revision of her 1963...
- Union Bank's Knopf takes aggressive sales approach.(R. Gregory Knopf)
- Magazine article from: The Bond Buyer Heap, Peter November 7, 1995 700+ words
...according to managing director R. Gregory Knopf. Under his leadership, the bank's Stepstone...building assets and a name in niche markets, Knopf hopes to create a beachhead from which...mutual funds. The strategy is paying off, Knopf said - the Stepstone group has $2.1...
