Rebel Cinderella

From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

De: Adam Hochschild

Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan

From the best-selling 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.

Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of 11. Two years later, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes, scion of one of the legendary 400 families of New York high society. Together, this unusual couple joined the burgeoning Socialist Party and, over the next dozen years, moved among the liveliest group of activists and dreamers this country has ever seen. Their friends and houseguests included Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene V. Debs, John Reed, Margaret Sanger, Jack London, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Rose stirred audiences to tears and led strikes of restaurant waiters and garment workers. She campaigned alongside the country's earliest feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control, earning her notoriety as one of the dangerous influences of the country from President Woodrow Wilson. But in a way no one foresaw, her too-short life would end in the same abject poverty with which it began.

By a master of narrative nonfiction, Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner who was truly ahead of her time.

©2020 Adam Hochschild (P)2020 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fantastic Historical Piece

This book was a wonderful investigation into the appeal of the Cinderella myth in 1900s America. It tells not only the story of Rose Pastor Stokes but also the story of America during that time.

A great history read, as romantic novel

This book will work as study or entertainment . I learned a lot. The title might put some off... go past it.

Another great one

I love Mr. Hochschild’s books and this one is no different. I had never heard of Rose Pastor Stokes, but was familiar with the times in which she lived.
She fought along with many others for the rights of worker’s. Being married to someone from a different class,and of considerable wealth, made the story all the more interesting. How did she balance her wealth and life’s work?

Terrific Book Made Me Want More

Incredible true story of a remarkable woman who made her mark on history
and made me want to listen to more books by Adam Hochschild and learn more about the activists of that time. Loved the details and the performance.

cinderella enduting myth

This was engrossing work, rrlevant for today. Current Attorney General Barr makes Palmer look good. The rule of law is threatened daily making this book an important tead.

terrific

I am of Russian jewish descent & the book was fascinating.I enjoyed it a lot

Am important part of history

The rag to riches back to rags because bold
strong beliefs on Rose’s part. A good way to learn history of the women &,their influence on the work beliefs of early modern America.