Radium Girls (Moore) - Book Reviews

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[A] fascinating social history—one that significantly reflects on the class and gender of those involved [is] Catherine Cookson meets Mad Men.…The importance of the brave and blighted dial-painters cannot be overstated.
Sunday Times (UK)


Kate Moore…writes with a sense of drama that carries one through the serpentine twists and turns of this tragic but ultimately uplifting story. She sees the trees for the wood: always at the center of her narrative are the individual dial painters, so the list of their names at the start of the book becomes a register of familiar, endearing ghosts
Spectator (UK)


In this thrilling and carefully crafted book, Kate Moore tells the shocking story of how early 20th-century corporate and legal America set about silencing dozens of working-class women who had been systematically poisoned by radiation.… Moore [writes] so lyrically (Five stars).
Mail on Sunday (UK)


Radium Girls spares us nothing of their suffering; though at times the foreshadowing reads more like a true-crime story, Moore is intent on making the reader viscerally understand the pain in which these young women were living, and through which they had to fight in order to get their problems recognized.…The story of real women at the mercy of businesses who see them only as a potential risk to the bottom line is haunting precisely because of how little has changed; the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still.
NPR Books


A perfect blend of the historical, the scientific, and the personal, this richly detailed book sheds a whole new light on this unique element and the role it played in changing workers' rights. The Radium Girls makes it impossible for you to ignore these women's incredible stories, and proves why, now more than ever, we can't afford to ignore science, either.
Bustle


In giving voice to so many victims, Moore overburdens the story line…[yet she] details what was a “ground-breaking…accomplishment” for worker’s rights.… [A]n emotionally charged…long, sad book.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) Moore's well-researched narrative is written with clarity and a sympathetic voice that brings these figures and their struggles to life…a must-read for anyone interested in American and women's history, as well as topics of law, health, and industrial safety.
Library Journal


(Starred review.) This timely book celebrates the strength of a group of women, whose determination to fight improved both labor laws and scientific knowledge of radium poisoning. Written in a highly readable, narrative style, Moore's chronicle of these inspirational women's lives is sure to provoke discussion-and outrage-in book groups.
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