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Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
de Mitford, Jessica
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394502604
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502601
- Librería
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394502604 . viii, 277 pp. "A full education in the incomparable Mitford School of Muckraking". Author photo on rear jacket panel. .
Sinopsis
Jessica Mitford (1917–1996) was the daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale, and she and her five sisters and one brother grew up in isolation on their parents’ Cotswold estate. Rebelling against her family’s hidebound conservatism, Mitford became an outspoken socialist and, with her second cousin and husband-to-be Esmond Romilly, ran away to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Romilly was killed in World War II, and Mitford moved to America, where she married the lawyer and political activist Robert Treuhaft. A brilliant muckraking journalist, Mitford was the author of, among other works, a memoir of her youth, Hons and Rebels (also published as an NYRB Classic); a study of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death ; and Kind and Unusual Punishment: The Prison Business . She died at the age of seventy-eight while working on a follow-up to The American Way of Death , for which, with characteristic humor, she proposed the title “ Death Warmed Over .” Jane Smiley, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is the author of many novels and other works. In 2010 she published Private Life , a novel; A Good Horse , a book for young adults; and The Man Who Invented the Computer , the first volume of the Sloane American Inventors series.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 35167
- Título
- Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
- Autor
- Mitford, Jessica
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394502604
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502601
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Palabras clave
- 0394502604, Investigative Journalism, Muckrakers, Muckraking
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Writing;
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