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The Birth of the Pill

How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
ernstblofeld
Jun 17, 2015ernstblofeld rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
While this book is interesting and informative, it's very, very poorly written, to the point of distraction. For the most part it reads like a bright 9th grader trying to have "style" and be “pithy.” There are a number of basic factual inaccuracies (e.g. the U.S. had no jet fighters in WWII), confused and contradictory paragraphs and general laziness (e.g. referring to the Soviet Union as “Russia”; boiler-plate passages about life and the role of women in post-war and 1950s America better belonging in Time magazine or the like). OK, this guy isn’t an academic but even the occasional attempts to put x, y and z into a larger context are weak. This book sure made me curious about Margaret Sanger though.