The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women Audiobook, by Kate Moore Play Audiobook Sample

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women Audiobook

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women Audiobook, by Kate Moore Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Angela Brazil Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 10.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook Delivery: Instant Download ISBN: 9781681684222

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

60

Longest Chapter Length:

51:29 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:52 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

15:52 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

5

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Publisher Description

1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous—the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.

As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. The very thing that had made them feel alive—their work—was in fact slowly killing them: they had been poisoned by the radium paint. Yet their employers denied all responsibility. And so, in the face of unimaginable suffering—in the face of death—these courageous women refused to accept their fate quietly, and instead became determined to fight for justice.

Drawing on previously unpublished sources—including diaries, letters, and court transcripts, as well as original interviews with the women's relatives—The Radium Girls is an intimate narrative account of an unforgettable true story. It is the powerful tale of a group of ordinary women from the Roaring Twenties, who themselves learned how to roar.

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“A perfect blend of the historical, the scientific, and the personal, this richly detailed book sheds a whole new light on this unique element and the role it played in changing workers’ rights.”

— Bustle 

Quotes

  • “Moore’s well-researched narrative is written with clarity and a sympathetic voice that brings these figures and their struggles to life.”

    — Library Journal (starred review)
  • “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.”

    — NPR

Awards

  • A May 2017 LibraryReads Pick
  • A 2017 LibraryReads Favorites of the Favorites selection
  • Wall Street Journal bestseller
  • A USA Today bestseller
  • #1 Amazon bestseller

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About Kate Moore

Kate Moore is the USA Today bestselling author of The Radium Girls, which won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best History, was voted US librarians’s 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, she writes across a variety of genres and has had multiple titles on the London Sunday Times bestseller list. She is passionate about politics, storytelling, and resurrecting forgotten heroes. Visit her at Kate-Moore.com. 

About Angela Brazil

Angela Brazil is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator and a professional actor who is proud to be a long-standing member of the Resident Acting Company at Trinity Repertory Company. She also teaches at the Brown/Trinity Conservatory.