
Rebel Cinderella
From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
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Narrated by:
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Lisa Flanagan
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By:
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Adam Hochschild
From the best-selling 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 leaders of her time.
Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of 11. Two years later, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes, scion of one of the legendary 400 families of New York high society. Together, this unusual couple joined the burgeoning Socialist Party and, over the next dozen years, moved among the liveliest group of activists and dreamers this country has ever seen. Their friends and houseguests included Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene V. Debs, John Reed, Margaret Sanger, Jack London, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
Rose stirred audiences to tears and led strikes of restaurant waiters and garment workers. She campaigned alongside the country's earliest feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control, earning her notoriety as one of the dangerous influences of the country from President Woodrow Wilson. But in a way no one foresaw, her too-short life would end in the same abject poverty with which it began.
By a master of narrative nonfiction, Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner who was truly ahead of her time.
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She fought along with many others for the rights of worker’s. Being married to someone from a different class,and of considerable wealth, made the story all the more interesting. How did she balance her wealth and life’s work?
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and made me want to listen to more books by Adam Hochschild and learn more about the activists of that time. Loved the details and the performance.
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strong beliefs on Rose’s part. A good way to learn history of the women &,their influence on the work beliefs of early modern America.
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