![]() ![]() The book, published in 1963, was on the New York Times best-seller list for months. In The American Way of Death, Mitford looked at the funeral business and the commercialism connected with the high cost of burial in this country. Her first target was an American institution that had seldom, if ever, been subjected to such scrutiny _ the mortuary business. Her autobiography, Daughters and Rebels, appeared in 1960, but it was when she got into investigative reporting that Mitford hit her stride. ![]() One of her sisters, Nancy, already was an established author, and Jessica Mitford was to become equally well known. ![]() citizen and the couple moved to Oakland, Calif., where Treuhaft opened a law practice.īoth became involved in civil rights causes, attacking the social ills of American society as they saw them.īoth became identified with left-wing organizations, he as counsel for the International Longshoremen's Union, she as financial director of the Communist Party in San Francisco and later as secretary of the Civil Rights Congress.īut it was not until she was in her late 30s that Jessica Mitford found the niche that would make her adopted country take notice. Jessica Romilly was in Washington then, working in the Office of Price Administration, and in 1943 married one of her colleagues, Robert Treuhaft. ![]()
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