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Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United States throughout the twentieth century. With an original emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation brings to light many little-known facts--for example, that one-third of the...more
Paperback, 361 pages
Published
August 8th 2005
by University of California Press
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This book is very intersting. It goes into the eugenics movement of the early 20th Century. Things like I.Q. Tests and why they were first created. Most people don't understand that they were developed to determin good candidates for sterilization! Provides an interesting look into the science of human genetics.
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