The Radium Girls : : the Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / History / Moore, Kate
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Compact discs.
Pt. 1. Knowledge -- Pt. 2. Power -- Pt. 3. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
Read by Angela Brazil.
In 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. 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.

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Awkward listen submitted by pamelawright on July 1, 2019, 6:20pm The material is very good. It was difficult to listen to though. The reading is halting and disjointed. I got used to it after a few chapters.

Caught my interest immediately submitted by DBogie on July 21, 2020, 4:47pm I have been talking about this book to family and friends. It is so well done and interesting.
I highly recommend it

Sad but true submitted by mickplu on August 6, 2023, 7:45am This is riveting in its sadness and its accuracy.