THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH By Jessica Mitford Hardcover 5th 1963 VG

Description: Extremely Rare Out-of-Print Original 1963 First Edition. Pages clean, crisp and unmarked. The lightest shelf/edge wear. No cover wear. Dust jacket has the lightest wear. No tanning of the pages. Images on listing, are of this book.HARDCOVER_____Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade."Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb.

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Book Title: THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH By Jessica Mitford Hardcover 5th 1963 V

Book Series: THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH By Jessica Mitford Hardcover 5th 1963 V

Original Language: English

Vintage: Yes

Personalize: No

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Personalized: No

Features: Abridged, Dust Jacket

Topic: Social History, Social Sciences, Industries / Service, Death & Dying, AMERICA

Signed: No

Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Inscribed: No

Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults

Edition: Collector's Edition, First Edition

Publication Year: 1963

Type: HISTORICAL - SOCIAL SCIENCES - CURRENT EVENTS

Literary Movement: Enlightenment, Modernism

Era: 1960s

Author: Jessica Mitford

Genre: Historical, Non-Classifiable, Business & Economics, Social Science

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Item Weight: 5 oz

Number of Pages: 340