![]() ![]() Second, the author does not shy away from giving you many, many details about the medical problems the women were suffering. I was constantly just yelling at the book “OMFG!!! □ ” or ” ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!! □ ” Every time the companies did another cover up or lie or some other stupid thing, AGH! It was frustrating!! Because of this it felt like I was reading at a snails pace. And there is a LOT of stuff in this book that will piss you off. First, it felt like I could hardly get past a couple of paragraphs before I had to set the book down for a few mins because what I had just read made me so pissed off. It was really hard to read on a few levels. ![]() It was a very fascinating and in depth look in to this important story. It was truly disgusting behavior and I don’t know how anyone could seriously live with themselves, knowing so many women were dying because of their product but not saying anything so they could keep making money. But this book really takes your perspective of that to a whole new level when you see legit letters and memos passed between board members and employees talking about how it didn’t matter the women were dying because they wanted money, how they bribed and manipulated people to cover up the women getting sick and dying, how there are documents of contradictory lying in court to cover their ass, how they had flat out lied in multiple ads in the paper saying things were fine, how they employed doctors to give them good results no matter what the real results were, how they made agreements in court to pay for damages and clean up and then found loop holes to get out of it, etc. At the end of the book, when the story of the women is over, you learn about how it isn’t truly over, because of what happened to those women, we now have so much information about radiation and laws about safety in the work place, and their legacy lives on through these rules and regulations. I can’t even begin to imagine how much time it took to dig through all this information. There are so many direct quotes from the people involved that all came from personal letters and diaries to court documents to direct interviews with the women and their families. The Radium Girls takes you from the very beginning of the story in the early 1900s and, in great detail, walks you through everything that happened. I am so glad I finally got to sit down to read it! This book was really good! I knew a little bit about the story before and when this book came out last year, I wanted to read it so bad. Originally published in the UK by Simon & Schuster UK, 2016. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives… Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America’s early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive - until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.īut the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women’s cries of corruption. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe they light up the night like industrious fireflies. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger. ![]()
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