Jonathan Eig. The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton and Company (2014).
You will know in advance that Margaret Sanger was the key player and that there must have been a scientist—but the rest will surprise you. This carefully researched book tells the story of how an improbable group of people came together on a project that changed the course of human history.
In his Author! Author! blog series, Museum president Gary T. Johnson highlights works that draw on our collection.