The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

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