![]() ![]() The Washington Star-News, September 12, 1973: Jessica Mitford has been tilting with the Establishment since 1936 when she was 18 and ran away from home to the Spanish Civil War where she was hoping to fight as a guerrilla soldier. I interviewed her in 1973 during her tour for her book on American prisons, “Kind and Usual Punishment.” Her most acclaimed book, “The American Way of Death,” chronicled abuses in the funeral industry. She moved to the United States, became a communist, also became a writer. And then there was Jessica, who took the opposite path. ![]() ![]() Deborah, the Duchess of Devonshire was probably the most traditional. Nancy, a socialist, moved to Paris and became a quite good novelist. Unity, who adored Adolph Hitler, became a nazi, and failed to blow her brains completely out. There was Diana, considered the prettiest, who married the famous fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. ![]() Once upon a time there were six beautiful British sisters most of whom grew up to be extremely political and widely known. And she has just become a distinguished professor of sociology at San Jose State College.” Though she never went to college, she is just begins a teaching stint at San Jose on. ![]()
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