ISBN:
9780358522461
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9781328866745
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0358522463
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 303, [32] Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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21 cm
Edition:
First Mariner Books edition, [Paperback]
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hochschild, Adam Rebel Cinderella
DDC:
305.42092
Keywords:
Stokes, Rose Pastor
;
Stokes, Rose P.
;
Stokes, Rose Pastor
;
Feminists Biography
;
Women socialists Biography
;
Women political activists Biography
;
Jewish refugees Biography
;
Women immigrants Biography
;
Biografie
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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Bibliography Seite 273-279
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