{"product_id":"decca-the-letters-of-jessica-mitford-9798217008117","title":"Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first paperback edition of the letters of the most remarkable of the Mitford sisters--timed to a new streaming series about the ever-fascinating family and a new biography of Jessica coming in 2025.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn into the British aristocracy as one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) larger-than-life Mitford sisters, Jessica \"Decca\" Mitford 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 exposé, \u003ci\u003eThe American Way of Death, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecca'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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798217008117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.19d","brand":"Jessica Mitford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51445610709173,"sku":"9798217008117","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6e82c988-2610-464e-9fe5-9e9573ec9e17.jpg?v=1753799188","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/decca-the-letters-of-jessica-mitford-9798217008117","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}