ISBN:
9781328866745
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 303 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42092
Keywords:
Stokes, Rose P.
;
Stokes, Rose Pastor / 1879-1933
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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
;
Jewish refugees
;
Women immigrants
;
Women political activists
;
Women socialists
;
United States
;
Biographies
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
;
Stokes, Rose P. 1879-1933
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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