An examination of American burial customs, written by an Englishwoman who resided in California for many years. Mitford finds the funeral industry infested with corruption, price-fixing, and outright fraud, and she writes scathingly of those who profit from it.
'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline,' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's infatuation with Hitler, Debo's marriage to a ...
First published in 1960, Jessica Mitford's autobiography is an account of the enclosed and eccentric childhood through which Nancy, Diana, Pam, Unity, Decca and Debo lived. In writing of their upbringing between the wars she also writes of her own commitment to communism and of her elopement to the Spanish Civil War with Esmond Romilly. Jessica ...
An examination of American burial customs, written by an Englishwoman who resided in California for many years. Mitford finds the funeral industry infested with corruption, price-fixing, and outright fraud, and she writes scathingly of those who profit from it.
Sifting through fact, fiction, and folklore, the author has a good time, and so, too, will her readers. The biography of Grace Darling, the first Victorian "media" heroine, is told with characteristic wit and intelligence. 8 pages of color plates.
Author Carl Jensen has been called "the Ralph Nader of the media" for his annual list of the year's most underreported stories. Each year, Jensen and his 40 watchdogs, called Project Censored, find the top 25 stories conspicuously missing from mainstream media. This book contains all those stories, now fully reported. 20 line drawings.
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