David Michael Kennedy, who was born on July 22, 1941, is the author of Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970). He is very qualified to write this book. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in History from Stanford University and Master’s Degree and Doctorate from Yale University. Kennedy specializes in American history. Earlier in his life, Kennedy won the John Gilmary Shea Prize in 1970, and the Bancroft Prize in 1971 for his book Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for World War I, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980). He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and
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McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University. Also, he is the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Kennedy is accountable for the recent editions of the history textbook: The American Pageant. Furthermore, he is the editor of the Oxford History of United States series.
This book chronicles the history of Margaret Sanger and her quest to supply American Women with birth control. In Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, the author encompassed the medical, legal, political, and religious extents of birth control and Margaret Sanger’s career. Sanger abetted to developing the evolving area of women's history. This book is a biography about the career of Margaret Sanger during the Progressive Era. Kennedy records the milestones in Sanger’s life, leading her to her ultimate goal of making birth control accepted and easily accessible for all American women. He did not idolize Sanger in the book, or approve of her over-emotional responses to what was happening. Instead, Kennedy laid out exactly what happened in an unbiased point of view. He was definitely uncertain of Sanger’s descriptive tale of how Sadie Sachs died in her arms due to the results of an unlawful abortion. (Guttmacher, 1970). Kennedy says, “Mrs. Sanger exaggerated the emotional. She was from childhood a passionate romantic...Naturally, then, Margaret Sanger found a sanction for her life’s work in a traumatic reaction to a pathetic
McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University. Also, he is the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Kennedy is accountable for the recent editions of the history textbook: The American Pageant. Furthermore, he is the editor of the Oxford History of United States series.
This book chronicles the history of Margaret Sanger and her quest to supply American Women with birth control. In Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, the author encompassed the medical, legal, political, and religious extents of birth control and Margaret Sanger’s career. Sanger abetted to developing the evolving area of women's history. This book is a biography about the career of Margaret Sanger during the Progressive Era. Kennedy records the milestones in Sanger’s life, leading her to her ultimate goal of making birth control accepted and easily accessible for all American women. He did not idolize Sanger in the book, or approve of her over-emotional responses to what was happening. Instead, Kennedy laid out exactly what happened in an unbiased point of view. He was definitely uncertain of Sanger’s descriptive tale of how Sadie Sachs died in her arms due to the results of an unlawful abortion. (Guttmacher, 1970). Kennedy says, “Mrs. Sanger exaggerated the emotional. She was from childhood a passionate romantic...Naturally, then, Margaret Sanger found a sanction for her life’s work in a traumatic reaction to a pathetic