S ixty-five years ago today, one of the most revolutionary books in American history was published. True, Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care probably didn’t look ...

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Ever since Dr. Benjamin Spock published “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” in 1946, parents have been reading up on the best way to raise their little ones.

Books published in electronic form to be read on tablet-sized readers are, in some cases, outstripping sales of conventional hard-copy volumes. E-books on parenting, for example, are, if not ...

Spock, who died in March at age 94, after completing work on the book, tells parents to feed their children a vegetarian diet, without meat, milk or any other dairy products, after the age of 2.

He’s probably the only pediatrician who has been on “perpetual house call for millions of American families over the past half-century.”He is, of course, Dr. Benjamin Spock, subject of a ...

Spock’s book was a huge best-seller, second in the U.S. only to the Bible. It sold more than 50 million copies and was translated into more than 40 languages.

Benjamin Spock’s enduring gift is the comfort he provided parents who came to a new job with no training. In his landmark 1946 book, “Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care,” the t… ...

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Benjamin Spock's book, "Baby and Child Care" (Pocket Books), first published in 1946, has recently been updated for an eighth edition. But Dr. Spock, who died in 1998 at age 94, ...