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Title: The only Unity biography disappoints
Review: The Mitford sisters, with the exception of Jessica, were vehemently opposed to Pryce-Jones's book, and lobbied hard to stop or contain it. Pryce-Jones interviewed many first person sources and had a wealth of detail and observation about Unity. However, the book is very poorly written. In my opinion (and Jessica Treuhaft's, too!) the best biographies are those in which all of the subjects views and actions are laid out, warts and all, and the reader is allowed to make his/her own judgement. Pryce-Jones editorializes constantly.I am certainly not disagreeing with the fact that there was much that was despicable about Unity's political views, associations, and actions. But Pryce-Jones fails to find any humanity in the woman. He makes it hard to understand why anybody still loved her. And they did.
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