Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

by Adam Rutherford

Churchill was a longstanding and committed racist and eugenicist. Though he led the Allies to great victory against one of the most extreme evils the world has ever seen, his well-documented views on the hierarchies of race make for uncomfortable reading today. The evidence for these charges is overwhelming, but it remains curiously controversial and provocative to point out that one of Britain’s greatest heroes had such demonically bigoted views.