REBEL CINDERELLA: From Rags To Riches To Radical, The Epic Journey Of Rose Pastor Stokes

tan & red hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. library discard copy in vg cond. binding square & tight. covers have old tape marks. top edge ink stamped, other edges clean. inkstamaped discard on title pg. otherwise contents clean. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice reading or study copy. good binding. clean text. dustwrapper looks brand new. no names, no inking, underlining or notes to text. no remainder markings. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). 303p. b&w photo illustrations. notes. bibliography. about the author. index. biography. american history. russian revolution. world war i. ~ From the best~selling author of King Leopold's Ghost, the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who 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 eleven. 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 early feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control. President Woodrow Wilson called her "one of the dangerous influences of the country." 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.…