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Author Brody, Leslie, 1952-

Title Irrepressible : the life and times of Jessica Mitford / Leslie Brody.

Publication Info. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2010]
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Description 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain?s most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Churchill?s nephew as a teenager. Their marriage severed ties with her privilege, a rupture exacerbated by the life she lead for seventy-eight years. After arriving in the United States in 1939, Mitford became one of the New Deal?s most notorious bureaucrats. For her the personal was political, especially as a civil rights activist and journalist. She coined the term frenemies, and as a member of the American Communist Party, she made several, though not among the Cold War witch hunters. When she left the Communist Party in 1958 after fifteen years, she promised to be subversive whenever the opportunity arose. True to her word, late in life she hit her stride as a writer, publishing nine books before her death in 1996.
Subject Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996.
Women communists -- United States -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Women radicals -- United States -- Biography.
Women civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
British Americans -- Biography.
Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996 -- Family.
Added Title Life and times of Jessica Mitford
ISBN 9781582434537 hardcover
1582434530 hardcover
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