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.

Articles by Kenneth Davis

Social Security: How The Trouble Began, April/May 1983 | Vol. 34, No. 3
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Incident In Miami, December 1980 | Vol. 32, No. 1
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 Sage Of Emporia, October/November 1979 | Vol. 30, No. 6
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The Birth Of Social Security, April/May 1979 | Vol. 30, No. 3
Had Franklin D. Roosevelt not been so conservative, we might have had national health insurance forty years ago Read >>
The Story Of The Pill, August/September 1978 | Vol. 29, No. 5
How a Crash Program Developed an Efficient Oral Contraceptive in Less Than a Decade Read >>
Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, October 1971 | Vol. 22, No. 6
“She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned, that we always call her ‘Granny’ “her mother said. Cousin Franklin felt otherwise Read >>
The Deadly Dust: The Unhappy History Of DDT, February 1971 | Vol. 22, No. 2
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“in The Name Of The Great Jehovah And The Continental Congress!”, October 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 6
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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