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Books like The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore is about labor rights, corporate accountability, women's history. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Killers of the Flower Moon
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David Grann · History
In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.
Read the summary → - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
Read the summary → - The Warmth of Other Suns
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Isabel Wilkerson · Memoir
Isabel Wilkerson's account of the Great Migration — the movement of six million Black Americans from the South to the North and West between 1915 and 1970 — is one of the most important works of narrative nonfiction published in the twenty-first century.
Read the summary → - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · Biography
Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from his juvenile delinquency in Depression-era California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he ran the 5,000 meters at nineteen and briefly caught Hitler's attention.
Read the summary → - American Prometheus
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · History
Charles Mann's 1491 sets out to correct a widespread misconception: that the Americas before Columbus were a mostly empty wilderness populated by small, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers living in gentle harmony with an untouched nature.
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