Benjamin Spock
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American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care
Why Is Benjamin Spock Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician and left-wing political activist whose book Baby and Child Care is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946 and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. The book's premise to mothers was that they "know more than you think you do." Spock's parenting advice and recommendations revolutionized parental upbringing in the United States, and he is considered to be amongst the most famous and influential Americans of the 20th century.
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