Stephanie Gorton

Dec 5, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Stephanie Gorton

With the uncertain state of reproductive healthcare in the United States today, it’s sometimes hard to remember how far we’ve already come. Stephanie Gorton’s The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America masterfully recounts that history, with all its highs and lows, through the eyes of two women instrumental in forwarding the cause.

Dec 4, 2024 | kansascity.com | Stephanie Gorton

Hey, writer-director-producer Ryan Murphy, if you're looking for subjects for future installments of TV's " Feud" franchise, look no further: The clash between turn-of-the-last-century birth control activists Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett may be just the ticket. Not interesting enough, you say? Au contraire, Ryan Murphy.

Nov 27, 2024 | startribune.com | Maren Longbella |Stephanie Gorton

Nonfiction: “The Icon and the Idealist” is a portrait of two activists. November 27, 2024 at 3:00PMFILE - In this March 1, 1934 file photo, Margaret Sanger, who founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, speaks before a Senate committee to advocate for federal birth-control legislation in Washington.

Nov 26, 2024 | lithub.com | Stephanie Gorton

The United States was about to turn ninety-four. The Civil War had ended seven years earlier, leaving Americans wary of the next great upheaval. When Mamie Ware was six months old, Susan B. Anthony illegally cast a ballot. When she was two, Alexander Graham Bell assembled his first telephone. In her eighth year, Edison patented his light bulb. Article continues after advertisementMamie’s “blessedly humorous” father, George, died of cancer in 1882, the year she turned ten.

Nov 26, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Stephanie Gorton |David Grann |Bob Woodward

Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil. During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited.