Kenneth S. Davis

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Kenneth S. Davis, a frequent contributor, wrote “ The Birth of Social Security ” in our April/May 1979 issue.

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Social Security: How The Trouble Began | April/May 1983
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Incident In Miami | December 1980
On a warm Florida evening in 1933 a madman with a pistol and a personality profile now all too familiar—“unskilled, unfriendly, unmoneyed, and unwell”—came within inches of altering the course of American history in one of its most critical moments Read >>
The Birth Of Social Security | April/May 1979
Had Franklin D. Roosevelt not been so conservative, we might have had national health insurance forty years ago Read >>
The Sage Of Emporia | October/November 1979
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The Story Of The Pill | August/September 1978
How a Crash Program Developed an Efficient Oral Contraceptive in Less Than a Decade Read >>
The Deadly Dust: The Unhappy History Of DDT | February 1971
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Miss Eleanor Roosevelt | October 1971
“She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned, that we always call her ‘Granny’ “her mother said. Cousin Franklin felt otherwise Read >>
“in The Name Of The Great Jehovah And The Continental Congress!” | October 1963
So bellowed Ethan Allen as he took Fort Ticonderoga without a shot. Once again the brawling giant of the Green Mountains had lived up to a myth that was indeed mighty—but no greater, perhaps, than the actual man Read >>

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