Adam Hochschild’s “Rebel Cinderella” – a review

JVL Introduction

Adam Hochschild is a wonderful popular analytical historian with many great books to his name.

His works include King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa on the atrocity of the Belgian king’s personal regime in the Congo; Bury the Chains on the anti-slavery movement in the British Empire; and Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939.

Here he turns to the story of an impoverished Jewish immigrant from Russia, Rose Pastor,  a World War One-era socialist insurgent, an impoverished cigar worker who counterintuitively married well – and never forsook her working class roots.

It is reviewed by Jennifer Szalai in the New York Times.

This article was originally published by New York Times on Wed 4 Mar 2020. Read the original here.