This year, as the birth control pill turns 50, America is suffering its lethal side effects. In just 50 years, the pill has wreaked havoc on an entire nation’s ability to think. But its destruction does not end there. Both men and women raised under its influence have been mentally, morally, and even physically compromised. The pill is not just another medicinal tablet and it cures no ailment, yet it was endorsed by the government as a drug that would change society. It has--dramatically. The pill has spread from a utopian dream to a staple in the medicine cabinets of 110 million homes. Geoffrey Botkin tracks the red-letter dates in the deployment of this history-changing drug, and gives an inside, first-person account of what the pill did to the first generation of Americans who accepted everything it represents.