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Episode 444: Stephanie Gorton Embraces the Messiness

Episode 444: Stephanie Gorton Embraces the Messiness

Update: 2024-12-27

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Stephanie Gorton once fretted over her not-neat process of writing books and soon came to embrace her messiness as a feature, not a bug, while she wrote The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America (Ecco). (Photo credit Sasha Israel)

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Episode 444: Stephanie Gorton Embraces the Messiness

Episode 444: Stephanie Gorton Embraces the Messiness

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