Troublemaker reviewed in Air Mail
Air Mail has published a review of Troublemaker: “Days of Decca.”
Consider the British families that are pillars of the publishing industry. The Windsors and the Churchills take top honors, but don’t overlook another contender: the Mitfords, six sisters raised in aristocratic obscurity between the wars. For decades, their extraordinary lives, ranging from the hilarious to the tragic, have been fodder for histories, collected letters, stage plays, films, and television shows, right up to this summer’s Netflix series “Outrageous.” Three of the sisters—novelist Nancy, Fascist Diana, and Nazi Unity—inspired biographies years ago. Now Carla Kaplan brings us Troublemaker, the first biography of Jessica, the runaway Mitford who decamped to America, joined the Communist Party, and became a successful author, named by Time magazine as “Queen of the Muckrakers.”