Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The ...

One of the first things that struck Carla Kaplan about Jessica Mitford was her voice — not in speaking but on the page.

MIAMI -- Middle children in large families tend to be attention-seekers. In the 1930s, Unity and Jessica Mitford, respectively Nos. 5 and 6 of the seven offspring of the minor English aristocrat Lord ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. Jessica Mitford was famous for several reasons. One reason was her investigative books, including her ...

THE TRIAL OF DR. SPOCK, THE REV. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR., MICHAEL FERBER, MITCHELL GOODMAN, AND MARCUS RASKIN by Jessica Mitford. 272 pages. Knopf. $5.95. In May 1968, Boston was the scene of a long ...

1. With anecdotes and observations both uproarious and awful, Jessica Mitford’s memoir fascinates readers with the isolated, underparented and “not exactly conventional upbringing” she and her ...

Jessica Mitford was famous for several reasons. One reason was her investigative books, including her best-known one, "The American Way Of Death," published in 1963. It revealed how the funeral ...