The biography of Rose Pastor Stokes reads like a fairytale come to life: a sweatshop immigrant marries into Gilded Age New York’s high society only to become a social crusader. In Rebel Cinderella, Adam Hochschild argues that Stokes was a heroine of her own creation, whose activism anticipated the most pressing political debates of the 21st century. Join Hochschild, best-selling author of King Leopold’s Ghost and CEO of Mother Jones Monika Bauerlein for a live stream conversation about what Stokes’s life can reveal about our “New Gilded Age,” fraught as it is with questions of immigration, segregation, and wealth inequality.

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