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8 de out. de 2006 · Treuhaft proved fully supportive of Mitford’s late start as a writer, which came toward the end of the nineteen-fifties, when the dissolution of the C.R.C. left a “vacuum” in her life.
Robert E. Treuhaft (1912-2001) a radical left-wing attorney prominent in progressive and New Left politics in the San Francisco Bay Area, was known for his work as a civil rights and civil liberties attorney as well as representing New Left organizations and individuals, such as the Free Speech Movement. He was perhaps equally well-known for his wife, muckraking writer Jessica Mitford, radical ...
Robert Treuhaft received the bachelor’s degree in physics from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree in high-energy nuclear physics from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1982.
18 de out. de 2023 · By PAUL LEWIS Robert Treuhaft, a crusading radical lawyer who inspired his wife, Jessica Mitford, to write her best seller "The American Way of Death," died in New York on Nov. 11. He was 89. As a union lawyer representing longshoremen in the San Francisco area in the 1950's, Mr. Treuhaft was enraged by the exorbitant fees undertakers charged, frequently consuming a widow's death benefits.
Mitford and Treuhaft, who were married from 1943 until her death in 1996, formed a true partnership, and her famous exposé of the funeral industry, 1963’s “The American Way of Death,” still ...
Robert E. Treuhaft: Left Wing Political Activist and Progressive Leader in the Berkeley Co-op (1990) Matthew (Matt) Crawford: Reflections on the Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union of Berkeley (1993) A Conversation with George Yasukochi: Controller of Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, 1956-1982 (1995)
13 de abr. de 2014 · But then given that Ben Treuhaft is a scion of the Mitford sisters, few would expect him to ever live a normal life. The 66-year-old piano tuner is the son of Jessica Mitford, one of the infamous ...
