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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)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 304,080 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of documentation, 15 May 2009
By Old Bloke (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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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2.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly detailed, but not interesting, 3 Aug 2008
By Peyman Askari (SOTON, UK) - See all my reviews
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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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