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The Village Author Series With Peter Sussman
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Ashby Village Classes
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Peter
Sussman, a former
Chronicle editor and an author and the husband of Ashby
Village co-founder Pat
Sussman, is the editor most recently of Decca: The
Letters of Jessica
Mitford. The book received glowing reviews around the
world (examples on
Sussman's website, www.peterysussman.com). Mitford, dubbed "the queen of
the
muckrakers" by Time magazine, is perhaps best known in this
country as the
author of the runaway 1963 best-seller The American Way
of Death.
Mitford,
a decades-long
resident of Oakland and a prominent local activist, was born
into an eccentric
English aristocratic family, with a brother and five
high-profile sisters,
including the Duchess of Devenhsire, the novelist Nancy
Mitford and two
notorious fascists. Jessica, the family leftist, eloped as a
teenager to the
Spanish Civil War with Winston Churchill's so-called "Red
nephew," an
adventure that played out in page one headlines in Europe.
The letters
collected by Sussman range from Mitford's earliest years
through her elopement
and subsequent international fame to her final days, in
1996.
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