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...literary ones." He joined Simon & Schuster in 1955, left to become editor-in-chief at Knopf in 1968. Convinced that good writing sells, Gottlieb has won a devoted following of top authors. Among those he personally edits are John Cheever, Doris Lessing, Anthony Burgess, John le Carre, Jessica Mitford...
Snyder is more the interrogator of Tomorrow than its host. His questions are abrasive, leaving few stones unturned while exploring controversies ranging from the end of the sexual double standard to author Jessica Mitford's grim refusal to be fingerprinted as a teacher at San Jose State. Thinking nothing of interrupting a guest, Snyder plays a merciless but even-handed devil's advocate. At times, he is downright impolite...
...Mitford's Quibbles...
...JESSICA MITFORD...
Much of this ground has been fought over before. Yet Kind and Usual Punishment is a persuasive tract with a murderous eye alike for delusive penal rhetoric and abusive practice. Eugene V. Debs once stated this ideal: "While there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Jessica Mitford has the sublime un reasonableness to treat that as an imperative...