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Loading... Rebel Cinderella: Rose Pastor Stokes: Sweatshop Immigrant, Aristocrat's Wife, Socialist Crusader (2020)by Adam Hochschild
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Jewish immigrant Rose worked in cigar factories but managed to sell stories to Jewish papers. When she got hired at one, she was sent to interview a rich guy who did charitable/leftist stuff, and they fell in love. Later, she became even more radical—she was convicted for her antiwar sentiments during WWI—while he became more conservative. It’s a messy story, but during parts of her life she was the most reported-on woman in the US. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: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 eleven. 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. No library descriptions found.
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Adam Hochschild has produced a very serviceable biography of a fascinating woman in Rebel Cinderella, though the book's limitations are signalled in its title. While Hochschild is clearly aware that the Cinderella trope is a problematic one, I wish he'd done more to really break it down and to situate Stokes as much in the milieu of/perceptions of, say, other contemporary women activists as he contrasts her with her (far less interesting, far more in need of therapy) husband. ( )