Bibliograph

Rebel Cinderella, from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, Adam Hochschild

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Rebel Cinderella, from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, Adam Hochschild

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-279) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rebel Cinderella

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Adam Hochschild

Sub title

from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

Summary

"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

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

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