Author: Ellen Feldman

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Review: Terrible Virtue

March 23, 2016 Fiction, Historical Fiction 12 ★★★

Review: Terrible VirtueTitle: Terrible Virtue
Author: Ellen Feldman
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Rating:three-stars

Summary: This was a fascinating story, but given that it was fictionalized, I’d particularly have liked to feel more of an emotional connection.

This is the  “story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood—an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at great personal cost, shaped the sexual landscape we inhabit today. This complex enigmatic revolutionary was at once vain and charismatic, generous and ruthless, sexually impulsive and coolly calculating—a competitive, self-centered woman who championed all women, a conflicted mother who suffered the worst tragedy a parent can experience.” (Source) Read more »

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