Leslie Brody
Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe the subject of Leslie Brody's biography, Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford (Counterpoint,$28.00): "subversive," "mischief-maker," " muckraker." Born into one of Britain’s most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew as a teenager and went on to become one of the New Deal’s most notorious bureaucrats, coining the term "frenemy." "Brody has made the world a better place by telling [Mitford's] saga so skillfully," says the San Francisco Chronicle. Brody is the author of Red Star Sister: Between Madness and Utopia and A Motel of the Mind.
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