War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race Edwin Black
In War Against the Weak, award-winning investigative journalist Edwin Black connects the crimes of the Nazis to a pseudoscientific American movement of the early twentieth century called eugenics. Based on selective breeding of human beings, eugenics begun in laboratories on Long Island but ended in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Ultimately, over 60,000 "unfit" Americans were coercively sterilized, 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 - which holds important lessons for the impending genetics age. Edwin Black is the New York Times-bestselling author of IBM and the Holocaust, The Transfer Agreement, and Banking on Baghdad. He lives near Washington, D.C.