Rebel Cinderella
From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Format: Book
Description: viii, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
"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.
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.
Subjects:
Stokes, Rose Pastor, 1879-1933.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
Women socialists -- United States -- Biography.
Women political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Jewish refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
Stokes, Rose Pastor, 1879-1933.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
Women socialists -- United States -- Biography.
Women political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Jewish refugees -- United States -- Biography.
Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781328866745
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Stokes, Rose Pastor | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-279) and index.