

The Radium Girls
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Author: Kate Moore
Narrator: Angela Brazil
Unabridged: 15 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 05/02/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Health & Fitness, History, Women
Synopsis
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Drawing on previously unpublished sources—including diaries, letters, and court transcripts, as well as original interviews with the women's relatives—The Radium Girls is an intimate narrative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.