The Radium Girls

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

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The Curie's newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty and wonder drug of the medical community.  Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil in the radium-dial factories, lucky to have such a coveted job.  Until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.  As the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave "shining girls" find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early twentieth century, and a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come.

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