Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

In 1970 Jessica Mitford publiJessica Mitfordd an article in the Atlantic Monthly "Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers" an exposé of the Famous Writers School a correspondence course of questionable business practices founded by Bennett Cerf. I love the way Jessica Mitford never outgrew some of her adolescent traits remaining true to her politics – Jessica Mitford was a self-taught socialist – throughout her life. I think I've read everything Jessica Mitford wrote.

She became an American citizen in 1944.