The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore with Angela Brazil (Narrator)

15 hours, 53 minutes first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional slow-paced

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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 brigh...

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