Rebel Cinderella from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
"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 leaders of her time"--
| Main Author: | Hochschild, Adam (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2020.
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Table of 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 no man's land
- Love is always justified.