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The Radium Girls

The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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The Radium Girls

Auteur(s): Kate Moore
Narrateur(s): Angela Brazil
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The year was 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Drawing on previously unpublished sources - including diaries, letters, and court transcripts as well as original interviews with the women's relatives - The Radium Girls is an intimate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 20s who themselves learned how to roar.

©2017 Kate Moore (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Amériques Femmes Guerres et conflits Militaire Médecine et secteur de la santé Politique États-Unis Sincère Guerre Soins de santé Médecine
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The value of a life is immeasurable. This book merges the injustices of a company, the scientific facts and the individual realities of many women, and their families, who were knowingly poisoned.

captivating story

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I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Shocking.
The narrator had to grow on me. But I do not recommend using high quality headphones because you can hear her swallow and it is distracting and grew to be disturbing.

Swallow

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Corny to say, but it's true, this book will make you laugh and cry. The lives of the women are very well told. You really feel for what they went through, which makes it all that much worse of a story to hear.

Still, absolutely worth reading.

heartbreaking read

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Like other reviewers there were elements of the book that were hard to listen thru. The details of glasses, noses, clothing got tiresome and the style of speaking was irritating. Ignore it. Listen. This story is worth the frustrations.

Ignore the weaker elements and listen

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Despite this being a tragedy, the story is beautifully written and somehow full of hope and spirit. Absolutely essential reading for everyone. No one should take our scientific knowledge for granted.

Inspiring story

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This book delivered what the author promises at the beginning - a personal glimpse into the lives of these women. I had always known that they existed but this brought them, and a moment in history, alive in a very engaging way. It’s shocking to think that these events happened not that long ago, in the grand scheme of things, and it highlights how greedy and corrupt people will sacrifice the health of others for their own gain - a problem that has not gone away.

Poignant look at the lives of these women

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What happened to these girls was so terrible. Thank you Kate Moore for telling the girls' story.

Great Book

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Angela Brazil read Kate Moore's book quite well. This story of the woman who suffered in mind, body & soul was written in such a way that the girls who, at first, were excited to be working in a job that paid well & seemed to bring them prestige. Once many of them started to literally fall apart & to deteriorate as a result of working with radium without safeguards to protect them, though the only glow that remained was what stuck on their hair & clothes & skin & in their bones.

This true account of the struggle, not only for life, but also for compensation, was told in such a way as to show how horrible radium poisoning really is. I am glad that I took the time to listen to this book & to find out the long lasting results of the legal battles waged, as well as what is in place today to protect employees & future generations as a whole as a result of what sufferers of radium poisoning went through.

Excellent Recounting of a Widespread Tragedy

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The story of the Radium Girls was deeply moving and captivated me from the beginning to the end. The experiences of the girls and their fight for justice continues to resonate today.

My only complaint about this book is how the author passes judgement on the appearance of various individuals. I’m sure that this was meant to help the reader better envision the various people, but I found some of the comments disrespectful to these individual’s memories. For example, comments such as, “her eyes were too close together,” and about the size of an individual’s head compared to their body. I don’t think it is appropriate to pass judgement on their appearances, especially as they have nothing to do with the narrative.

A deeply moving narrative

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What a little known piece of history.
I love how the author took all girls stories and gave them the respect that they deserved.

What horrible deaths these women went thru, with no one listening to them and having to fight for what should have theirs right from the beginning.

How the radium plants got way with it for as long as they need, just blows the mind.

I would like to know if the children who were born to these women or even close family members or husbands could get the radium poisoning from being in contact to them.

Happy Listening Everyone

A must read for history buffs

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