Pub Date: March 6, 2018
Dewey: 363.17990820
Lexile Code: 0980
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.50" H x 8.00" L x 5.25" W ( 0.90 lbs) 504 pages
BISAC Categories:
History | Women | Wars and Conflicts | World War I | Technology and Engineering | Industrial Health and Safety | Political Science | Labor and Industrial Relations | United States | 20th Century | Medical | Toxicology
Description: "Originally published in 2016 in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK"--Title page verso.
Brief description:
Kate Moore is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Radium Girls, which won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best History, was voted U.S. librarians' favorite nonfiction book of 2017, and was named a Notable Nonfiction Book of 2018 by the American Library Association. A British writer based in London, Kate writes across a variety of genres and has had multiple titles on the Sunday Times bestseller list. She is passionate about politics, storytelling, and resurrecting forgotten heroes.
Review Quotes: "Radium Girls spares us nothing of their suffering; though at times the foreshadowing reads more like a true-crime story, Moore is intent on making the reader viscerally understand the pain in which these young women were living, and through which they had to fight in order to get their problems recognized...The story of real women at the mercy of businesses who see them only as a potential risk to the bottom line is haunting precisely because of how little has changed; the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books