Rebel Cinderella

From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

Adam Hochschild

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781328866769
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Biografie nell'ambito delle scienze sociali

From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time. Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes, scion of one of the legendary 400 families of New York high society. Together, this unusual couple joined the burgeoning Socialist Party and, over the next dozen years, moved among the liveliest group of activists and dreamers this country has ever seen. Their friends and houseguests included Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene V. Debs, John Reed, Margaret Sanger, Jack London, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Rose stirred audiences to tears and led strikes of restaurant waiters and garment workers. She campaigned alongside the country's earliest feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control, earning her notoriety as "one of the dangerous influences of the country" from President Woodrow Wilson. But in a way no one foresaw, her too-short life would end in the same abject poverty with which it began. By a master of narrative nonfiction, Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner who was truly ahead of her time.

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Adams, Henry, 35

Addams, Jane, 39, 49, 152

AFL (American Federation of Labor), 23, 63, 69, 104, 228

Alexander, Tsar, II, 11–12, 15, 31

American Federation of Labor (AFL), 23, 63, 69, 104, 228

American Protective League (APL) and vigilantes, 182, 192, 204, 218

American Society for the Suppression of the Jews, 36

Ameringer, Oscar, 100

Anderson, Sherwood, 243–44

Andreyeva, Maria, 87–89

Anglo-Saxon Superiority/influence (Demolins), 159–60

Ansonia Hotel, 43, 125–26, 189

anti-Semitism

America (late 1800s/early 1900s), 34–37, 56, 58, 62, 108, 189

Dreyfus case, France, 34

Germany, 242–43

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 34

anti-Semitism/Russia

descriptions, 9–10, 11–12, 34, 75, 92, 153–54, 205

Jews leaving and, 11–12, 15, 35

massacre (1918), 205

massacre, Kishinev (1903), 34, 38

Pale of Settlement, 10, 11, 93, 175

Tsar Alexander II/assassination and, 11–12, 15, 31

Antin, Mary, 15

apartheid, South Africa, 75

APL (American Protective League) and vigilantes, 182, 192, 204, 218

Appeal to Reason (socialist political weekly), 83

Apprentice, The (TV show), 5

Arnold, Edwin, 52

art

modern art, 130

See also creativity age; specific individuals

Astor, Mrs. William Backhouse, Jr., 4

Augustów, Russia

before/after First World War, 9

descriptions, 9, 10, 28

First World War and, 154

B

Baker, Ray Stannard, 106–7

Barnum, P. T., 83

Beard, Charles, 137

Becker, ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Prologue: Tumult at Carnegie Hall
• Tsar and Queen
• Magic Land
• City of the World
• Missionary to the Slums
• Cinderella of the Sweatshops
• Distant Thunder
• Island Paradise
• A Tall, Shamblefooted Man
• By Ballot or Bullet
• A Key to the Gates of Heaven
• Not the Rose I Thought She Was
• I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
• Photos
• Let the Guilty Be Shot at Once
• All My Life I Have Been Preparing to Meet This
• Waves Against a Cliff
• The Springtime of Revolution?
• No Peaceful Tent in No Man’s Land
• Love Is Always Justified
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Photo Credits
• Index
• Read More from Adam Hochschild
• About the Author
• Connect with HMH
• Footnotes