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

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Notes: ELEC copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment; Elecresource
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
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 leaders of her time"-- Provided by publisher

Physical description: 1 online resource (viii, 303, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)

Topic: Feminists; Women socialists; Women political activists; Jewish refugees; Women immigrants; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Women