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# The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction)

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Review: Must read! - Incredible true story; I could not put this book down. Excellent research and storytelling.
Review: Heartbreaking, but also engaging and informative! - This book is incredible! These amazing women from our past--there's really no other way to describe such brave women who had the courage to stand up and fight a government, a business, an industry, and a complete system that was firmly against them... when they were in pain, suffering devastating illness and disease. This book is just incredible. It will bring you to tears, but it's not all sad. It's also very heartwarming and absolutely brilliant. Very well-written, it captures the hearts of these ladies who clearly had a zest for life, wanted to help their country, and then later help their fellow women. This is a testimony to the strength of women, and all of these women were strongly Christian, praying regularly for themselves and each other, at a time when the country was very Christian. This is an absolute must-read!!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #436,042 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #7 in History of Medicine (Books) #9 in Women in History #103 in World War I History (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (23,806) |
| Dimensions  | 5.75 x 1.5 x 8.75 inches |
| Edition  | Large type / Large print |
| ISBN-10  | 1432839039 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1432839031 |
| Item Weight  | 1.7 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 631 pages |
| Publication date  | July 19, 2017 |
| Publisher  | Thorndike Press Large Print |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Must read!
*by M***S on December 3, 2025*

Incredible true story; I could not put this book down. Excellent research and storytelling.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Heartbreaking, but also engaging and informative!
*by F***E on February 14, 2024*

This book is incredible! These amazing women from our past--there's really no other way to describe such brave women who had the courage to stand up and fight a government, a business, an industry, and a complete system that was firmly against them... when they were in pain, suffering devastating illness and disease. This book is just incredible. It will bring you to tears, but it's not all sad. It's also very heartwarming and absolutely brilliant. Very well-written, it captures the hearts of these ladies who clearly had a zest for life, wanted to help their country, and then later help their fellow women. This is a testimony to the strength of women, and all of these women were strongly Christian, praying regularly for themselves and each other, at a time when the country was very Christian. This is an absolute must-read!!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Innocence, Poison, and the Glow That Wouldn’t Fade
*by H***V on August 27, 2025*

Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls is one of those books that makes you want to alternately hug the young women in its early pages and then throw the nearest hard object at the management offices of every radium company in the United States. The opening chapters are almost too sweet, with the young women, bright-eyed, innocent, and armed with nothing more than a steady hand and a dream of a steady paycheck, painting luminous dials as if they were painting their way into history. Spoiler: they were, just not in the way anyone had in mind. The image of girls smiling as they “lip-pointed” their brushes, swallowing poison while unknowingly lighting their way to tragedy, is gut-wrenching in a way that sticks to your ribs far longer than the glow-in-the-dark paint stuck to theirs. As the narrative shifts, so too does the tone, moving from naïve joy to the corporate equivalent of an ice bath. The businesses, confronted with the obvious truth that their workers were wasting away like candles left in a furnace, responded not with humanity or decency but with the kind of cold-hearted abdication of responsibility that would make even Ebenezer Scrooge raise an eyebrow. Every excuse, every denial, every instance of “surely it must be something else killing them” reads like a masterclass in how not to have a soul. The management, faced with suffering they had the power to alleviate, instead chose the noble route of circling wagons, covering tracks, and gaslighting the very people whose bones were literally crumbling. And yet, Moore’s writing never lets the women fade into victimhood. The bravery, tenacity, and sheer refusal to be silenced is the glowing core of the story, a reminder that sometimes justice doesn’t arrive neatly packaged but dragged in, kicking and screaming, by those who simply won’t quit. This book is infuriating, inspiring, heartbreaking, and oddly luminous; an unforgettable story of innocence lost and courage found, told with a sharpness that makes the injustice burn as brightly as the paint once did.

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