The story of the extraordinary characters behind the invention of the contraceptive Pill
Jonathan Eig, a former senior special reporter at the Wall Street Journal, is the author of three highly acclaimed books, two of which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Simon & Schuster, 2005), won the Casey Award for best baseball book of 2005; his second book, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (Simon & Schuster, 2007), was named one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune, Sports Illustrated, and the Washington Post. In his third book, Get Capone (Simon & Schuster, 2010), Eig discovered thousands of pages of new material on Capone, affirming his trustworthy reporting reputation in what the New York Times called a 'multifaceted portrait' and a 'gore-spattered thriller'.
Brilliant ... reads like a thriller ... For all the criticisms
levelled at it in later years, the Pill's philosophical impact has
been as significant as its physical effect. Its advocates deserve
this vivid and life-affirming history. -- Joan Smith * Observer
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Written with pace and clarity, The Birth of the Pill is a
vivid portrait of four brilliant and courageous misfits. -- Frances
Wilson * Telegraph *
The American journalist Jonathan Eig is neither a woman nor, indeed
an expert of women's reproductive health (his previous bestsellers,
as he points out, were about "ballplayers and gangsters"). Rather
gamely, considering the sensitivities and politics involved, he's
chosen to write a history of the development of the birth control
pill - and he carries it off with wit, verve and scholarly
research. -- Isobel Lerwick * Financial Times *
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