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Author:

Hochschild, Adam, author.

Title:

Rebel Cinderella : from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes / Adam Hochschild.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Stokes, Rose Pastor,--1879-1933.
Feminists--United States--Biography.
Women socialists--United States--Biography.
Women political activists--United States--Biography.
Jewish refugees--United States--Biography.
Women immigrants--United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue: Tumult at Carnegie Hall -- Tsar and queen -- Magic land -- City of the world -- Missionary to the slums -- Cinderella of the sweatshops -- Distant thunder -- Island paradise -- A tall, shamblefooted man -- By ballot or bullet -- A key to the gates of heaven -- Not the rose I thought she was -- I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier -- Let the guilty be shot at once -- All my life I have been preparing to meet this -- Waves against a cliff -- The springtime of revolution? -- No peaceful tent in noman's land -- Love is always justified.

Summary:

"From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leadersof her time"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1328866742
9781328866745

LCCN:

2019027932

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