Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/01/2008
Genetics is in the news. What is not in the news are its origins in a racist twentieth century pseudoscience called eugenics, which was based on selective breeding. In 1904, the United States launched a large-scale eugenics movement that was championed by the medical, political and religious elite. History has recorded the horrors of ethnic cleansing, but until now, America's own efforts to create a master race have been largely overlooked. In War Against The Weak, investigative journalist, Edwin Black, reveals that eugenics had an incredible foothold in America in the early twentieth century, and was in fact championed and funded by America's social, political, and academic elite. Even more shocking, Black traces the flow of ideas, research, and money from Cold Spring Harbor (Long Island) to Germany, in the process proving that it was America's eugenics programme that gave Hitler the scientific justification to escalate his virulent anti-Semitism into all-out genocide.
- ISBN:
- 9781568582580
- 9781568582580
- Category:
- Ethnic studies
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-01-2008
- Publisher:
- Avalon Publishing Group
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 372
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x153x44mm
- Weight:
- 0.95kg
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