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Poison penmanship : the gentle art of muckraking

By Jessica , Mitford

Book information

Publisher
New York Review Books
Year
2010
ISBN
9781590173558, 1590173554
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
409 kB (419319 bytes)
Pages
274\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Journalism.

Description

"Poison penmanship" is conceived not only as a collection of occasional pieces ... but also as a how-to book for aspiring muckrakers. Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England's most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Abstract: Poison Penmanship collects seventeen of Mitford's finest pieces-about everything from crummy spas to network-TV censorship-and fills them out with the story of how she got the scoop. Read more...

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