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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,018 ratings — published 2003
The Lies They Told (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,186 ratings — published 2025
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,727 ratings — published 2016
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.31 — 88,087 ratings — published 2013
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,642 ratings — published 2022
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.14 — 240,516 ratings — published 2003
Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,299 ratings — published 1922
Only the Beautiful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.45 — 54,015 ratings — published 2023
The Calamity Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.61 — 443,120 ratings — published 2026
Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.06 — 79 ratings — published 2001
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (American Crossroads) (Volume 17)
by (shelved 12 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.96 — 138 ratings — published 2005
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.84 — 174 ratings — published 1985
Second Glance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.80 — 51,859 ratings — published 2003
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,382 ratings — published 2018
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,443 ratings — published 1982
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,159,910 ratings — published 1932
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.66 — 469,830 ratings — published 2020
Take My Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.35 — 119,255 ratings — published 2022
Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.80 — 40 ratings — published 2004
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.10 — 360 ratings — published 2016
From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.06 — 145 ratings — published 2004
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.94 — 244 ratings — published 2008
The Foundling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.89 — 15,190 ratings — published 2022
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,855 ratings — published 2021
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.05 — 915 ratings — published 2019
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.79 — 89 ratings — published 1994
American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.15 — 68 ratings — published 2003
Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.83 — 174 ratings — published 2006
Women of a Promiscuous Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,236 ratings — published 2026
Superior: The Return of Race Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,311 ratings — published 2019
The Sunflower House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,893 ratings — published 2024
The Last Carolina Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,855 ratings — published 2023
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.24 — 34 ratings — published 2010
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.12 — 63,631 ratings — published 2020
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.12 — 357 ratings — published 1984
Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published 2008
A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (Bioethics and the Humanities)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.12 — 26 ratings — published 2010
Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.12 — 425 ratings — published 2013
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.58 — 113 ratings — published 2008
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,408 ratings — published 1997
The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.14 — 72 ratings — published 1991
The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.87 — 67 ratings — published 1996
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,918 ratings — published 2017
The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published 2002
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.10 — 56,604 ratings — published 2013
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,711 ratings — published 2007
Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.62 — 24 ratings — published 1995
The Passing of the Great Race: Color Illustrated Edition with Original Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.31 — 190 ratings — published 1916
Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.38 — 863 ratings — published 2011
Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.18 — 38 ratings — published 2008
“It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.”
― Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
― Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.”
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