Uncover the shocking history of the early 20th-century campaign to breed a “better” American race.
THE EUGENICS CRUSADE tells the story of the unlikely—and largely unknown—project to breed a better American race, tracing the rise of a movement that turned a scientific theory of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control. Populated by figures both celebrated and obscure, it is an often revelatory portrait of an America at once strange and eerily familiar.
Populated by figures both celebrated and obscure, THE EUGENICS CRUSADE is a revelatory portrait of an America at once strange and eerily familiar.
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