The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women

Record details

ISBN: 9781665146807
ISBN: 1492650951
ISBN: 9781492650959
ISBN: 1681684217
ISBN: 9781681684215
Physical Description: 13 audio discs (16 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [Minneapolis, Minnesota] : HighBridge Audio, [2017]
Copyright: ℗2017

General Note:	Title from web page. Compact discs.
Formatted Contents Note:	Pt. 1. Knowledge -- Pt. 2. Power -- Pt. 3. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Angela Brazil.
Summary, etc.:	In 1917, as a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous. The girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. 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.
Awards Note:	2019 Lincoln Award Nominee