The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06ZY3XXYV |
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| Number of Pages | : | 223 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
They were the radium girls. It is the powerful tale of a group of ordinary women from the Roaring 20s who themselves learned how to roar.. Yet their employers denied all responsibility. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. The very thing that had made them feel alive - their work - was in fact slowly killing them: They had been poisoned by the radium paint. And so, in the face of unimaginable suffering - in the face of death - these courageous women refused to accept their fate quietly and instead became determined to fight for justice. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. The year was 1917. Drawing on previously unpublished sources - including diaries, letters, and court transcripts as well as original interviews with the women's relatives - The Radium Girls is an intimate narrative account of an unforgettable true story
the poor writing made it so grating to listen to This book had so much potential with such a fascinating storyline. However, the poor writing made it so grating to listen to, I could not get past the first hour of the book. About 25% of what I listened to was highly interesting information about the history of radium use. The rest was drivel and consisted of superficial descriptions of the beauty, perfect hair and teeth and snub noses of about 20 different girls. That was about the depth of the develop