War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

by Black, Edwin

• ISBN13: 9780914153290
• ISBN10: 0914153293
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-30
• Publisher: Dialog Pr

Summary

War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and fund the Nazi eugenics of Hitler and Mengele - and then created the modern movement of "human genetics." Some 60,000 Americans were sterilized under laws in 27 states. This expanded edition includes two new essays on state genocide.

Author Biography

Edwin Black is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling and international investigative author of 80 editions in 14 languages in 65 countries, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in the leading publications of the United States, Europe, and Israel: With more than a million books in print, his work focuses on genocide and hate, corporate criminality and corruption, governmental misconduct, academic fraud, hilanthropy abuse, oil addiction, alternative energy, and historical investigation. Editors have submitted Black's work ten times for Pulitzer Prize nomination, and in recent years, he has been the recipient of a series of top editorial awards. His best known book is IBM and the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
From Peapod to Persecution
Mountain Sweeps	p. 3
Evolutions	p. 9
America's National Biology	p. 21
Hunting the Unfit	p. 43
Legitimizing Raceology	p. 63
The United States of Sterilization	p. 87
Birth Control	p. 125
Blinded	p. 145
Mongrelization	p. 159
Eugenicide
Origins	p. 185
Britain's Crusade	p. 207
Eugenic Imperialism	p. 235
Eugenicide	p. 247
Rasse und Blut	p. 261
Hitler's Eugenic Reich	p. 279
Buchenwald	p. 319
Auschwitz	p. 337
Newgenics
From Ashes to Aftermath	p. 375
American Legacy	p. 385
Eugenics Becomes Genetics	p. 411
Newgenics	p. 427
Notes	p. 445
Major Sources	p. 505
Index	p. 519
Appendix: Connecticut and North Carolina	p. 551
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