Edwin Black has again written a unique and important book. Perhaps most startling, eugenics directly inspired the rise of Nazism in Hitler’s Germany … This chilling and well-researched book is highly recommended. In this bombshell of investigative journalism, author Edwin Black reveals that eugenics was extensive, systematic, well-funded, and supported by major political and intellectual leaders. – Gregory Mott, Washington Post Book WorldĪ BOMBSHELL. Black, whose mother lived under Nazi rule in Poland, writes here with the zeal of an avenger Investigative journalist Edwin Black compellingly argues that the ethnic-cleansing movement that culminated in Nazi Germany’s death camps during World War II was the realization of a particularly ugly American dream. Combining exhaustive research, a very readable style, and just the right touch of moral outrage, Black splendidly conveys the evil depth and breadth of eugenics philosophy, the pseudo-science and social theory that unleashed a half-century of war against society's most vulnerable citizens.ĬOMPELLING-THE ZEAL OF AN AVENGER. Edwin Black has written what may well be the best book ever published about the American eugenics movement and the horrific events it spawned.
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