Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (Yale Publications in American Studies) - Softcover

Kennedy, David M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300014953 ISBN 13: 9780300014952

Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2009

Synopsis

Combines biography of M. Sanger with social history of birth control movement. Winner of Bancroft Prize in American History 1971 and John Gilmary Shea Award of American Catholic Historical Association 1970.

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About the Author:

David M. Kennedy received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus and co-director of The Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West at Stanford University. His first book, BIRTH CONTROL IN AMERICA: THE CAREER OF MARGARET SANGER, was honored with both the Bancroft Prize and the John Gilmary Shea Prize. He has won numerous teaching awards at Stanford, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in American political, diplomatic, intellectual, and social history, and in American literature. Dr. Kennedy published a volume in the OXFORD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, FREEDOM FROM FEAR: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN DEPRESSION AND WAR, 1929--1945, for which he was honored with the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society, and he served from 2002--2011 on the board of the Pulitzer Prizes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300014953
• ISBN 13: 9780300014952
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342