Outside of a Dog, a Book Is Man's Best Friend
Inside of a Dog It's Too Dark to Read*
The Washington Independent Review of Books
From a review of Cody McDevitt’s Given No Choice: “The book is laden with both newsy nuggets and painful personal anecdotes. It begins with the story of Sherri Chessen, Phoenix’s host of the locally franchised children’s show Romper Room, whose fifth pregnancy in 1962 was upended by fetal defects caused by thalidomide. Despite a doctor’s recommendation that she terminate the pregnancy (advice she heeded), her employers determined ‘she was no longer competent to work with children because she planned to have an abortion.’”
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* Groucho Marx