By Jane Smiley, Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford was once a member of 1 of England's so much mythical households (among her sisters have been the novelist Nancy Mitford and the present Duchess of Devonshire) and one of many nice muckraking reporters of recent instances. Leaving England for the US, she pursued a occupation as an investigative reporter and unrepentant gadfly, publicizing not just the misdeeds of, such a lot famously, the funeral enterprise (The American means of loss of life, a bestseller) and the criminal enterprise (Kind and ordinary Punishment), but additionally of writing faculties and weight loss courses. Mitford's diligence, unfailing skepticism, and acid pen made her one of many nice chroniclers of the mischief humans wake up to within the pursuit of revenue and the identify of excellent. Poison Penmanship collects seventeen of Mitford's best pieces--about every thing from crummy spas to network-TV censorship--and fills them out with the tale of the way she received the inside track and, no much less interesting, how the tale constructed after booklet. The booklet is a satisfaction to learn: few newshounds have ever been as humorous as Mitford, or as proficient at getting round in these darkish, cobwebbed corners the place glossy the USA models its glossy can provide. It's additionally an unequaled and useful guide of the wonderful artwork of investigative reporting.
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