Kenneth S. Davis

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

Articles by this Author

Social Security: How The Trouble Began, April/May 1983 | Vol. 34, No. 3

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

The Sage Of Emporia, October/November 1979 | Vol. 30, No. 6

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

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

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

The Deadly Dust: The Unhappy History Of DDT, February 1971 | Vol. 22, No. 2

“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

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