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By: Kate Moore (Author)
A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal,…
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageo
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Fluffyluggage –
Heartbreaking, but also engaging and informative!
This book is incredible! These amazing women from our past–there’s really no other way to describe such brave women who had the courage to stand up and fight a government, a business, an industry, and a complete system that was firmly against them… when they were in pain, suffering devastating illness and disease. This book is just incredible. It will bring you to tears, but it’s not all sad. It’s also very heartwarming and absolutely brilliant. Very well-written, it captures the hearts of these ladies who clearly had a zest for life, wanted to help their country, and then later help their fellow women. This is a testimony to the strength of women, and all of these women were strongly Christian, praying regularly for themselves and each other, at a time when the country was very Christian. This is an absolute must-read!!
Janet –
Inspirational
Well done story of unnecess pain and suffering. Incredible perseverance of the ladies. Highly recommend it. Much needed groundbreaking regulations for industrial safety.
Frank Esposito –
This is a book everyone should read , it’s as relevant today as the day it was written .
It started out as a required reading choice for my sons AP college course , and became a family experience. My son asked me to help him pick an interesting book from the list provided , and the name jumped out at me, jogged my memory of my grandfather telling me how so many young girls lives had been destroyed by doing what began as important war work [WWII] and continued on long after , even though the factory owners knew that the work was deadly. I don;t want to ruin the book for anyone So just read it!!PS The movie is on Amazon prime & well worth seeing , [I’m prejudiced towards books] and there are also an audible book . You won’t regret & will never forget taking in this true story.
KK –
Awesome book! Educational & very heartfelt sad real life story! I wish I had purchased the actual paper book! ð ð¥
Amazon Customer –
Tells the story of how industrial greed and ignorance play with our lives
Lynda Kelly –
God, this is harrowing, which of course, due to the subject matter I’d expected but it is really HARROWING. So many times I was gasping for breath as I sat here sobbing. You get to know some of these girls so well and like them so much and they died horrible, horrific, horrendous deaths and it was so bloody needless and so upsetting. As for the companies they worked for I have no words….they just behaved despicably, whichever side of the country they were based out of……..It was gratifying that 2 lawyers in particular took on their cases and did so much for them…..True heroes, those chaps, cos’ they were properly up against it. Raymond Berry and Leonard Grossman (who even paid from his own pocket to assist them).I used to do piece-work in a factory as these girls did and always put the end of a reel of soldering wire in my mouth to make it quicker, just as they did with their paint….however, I just burnt my tongue a few times……they didn’t. It painted such a romantic picture, these glowing, beautiful young girls (and many were only early teens) when nobody had a clue of the godawful damage this stuff was doing. And to read this poison has a half-life of 1600 years means, as the author points out, that these girls’ bodies are still full of this awful stuff attacking their bones. Even 5 years later, one of the girl’s coffins still glowed after an exhumation !! Just so appalling…..Interestingly, someone remarked in the late 1920s that “the luminous watch is purely a fad” yet I bought one just last year to see in the dark, almost one hundred years on.Hazel and Theo’s story I found immensely touching……she was already so ill but wouldn’t take a penny in assistance from him so he married her !! Another hero……One passage really touched me, too, “And Grace Fryer was never forgotten. She is still remembered now……you are still remembering her now.” To read of Catherine Wolfe Donohue testifying from bed while her husband “watched as she demonstrated how she had been killed” was just devastating for me, too…….just so awful.I only spotted one spelling mistake the whole way through as well, which is commendable…..lent written and not leant. So superbly presented as well as written. The author thanked someone in her acknowledgements for giving the dial-painting girls a voice but I thank HER for writing it in the first place. It touched my heart, this book, and I’d highly recommend it. Everyone should learn about this. Plus their cases have helped so many others working with dodgy or noxious substances !! I won’t ever forget what I have just read.
Jackson Julia –
Excellent livre, très bien écrit. Je ne me suis pas ennuyée une seule seconde ! Je recommande !
Living –
Es un libro grande, pero ameno, aunque es una investigación periodÃstica me pareció muy bien escrito. Una historia real triste