Troublemaker is a Town & Country “Must Read” book for Fall 2025

“For any Mitford fanatic, there’s never been a shortage of works to read by Jessica (“Decca”) Mitford, who covered her unusual upbringing in the memoir Hons and Rebels and brilliantly tackled the funeral industry in the The American Way of Death. Now, there’s finally something to read about Decca, who ran away from home to marry a Communist cousin, who found herself on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, and who moved to America (the horror!) to become a writer and activist. Time magazine called her “Queen of the Muckrakers,” and here biographer Carla Kaplan dives deep into her life and offers a long overdue tome dedicated to putting Decca front and center.”