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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (Paperback)

by Edwin Black (Author) "When the sun breaks over Brush Mountain and its neighboring slopes in southwestern Virginia, it paints a magical, almost iconic image of America's pastoral splendor..." (more)

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Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows; Reprint edition (4 Oct 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1568583214
ISBN-13: 978-1568583211
Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.5 x 5 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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In War Against the Weak, Edwin Black connects the crimes of the Nazis to a pseudo-scientific American movement of the early twentieth century called eugenics. Based on selective breeding of human beings, eugenics began in laboratories on Long Island but ended in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Ultimately, over 60,000 "unfit" Americans were coercively sterilised, a third of them after Nuremberg declared such practices crimes against humanity. This is a timely and shocking chronicle of bad science at its worst.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly detailed, but not interesting, 3 Aug 2008

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It's a very informative book, and would seriously recommend it if you are interested in eugenics.

Nevertheless, it is a rather boring read. I'm on page 94 and I'm starting to lose my mind. Black pretty much summed up why the book sucks on page xxii. "Frankly, I had amassed enough information to write a freestanding book for each of the twenty-one chapters in this volume." And essentially, that's what he did. He made every chapter far too long.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of documentation, 15 May 2009

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A dark, dark page of American history has been laid open here for future generations. This book has quite clearly been a genuine labour of love, thoroughly researched with all evidence gained painstakingly documented, ensuring that this widely unknown topic will never be forgotten. Please read.

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