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Title: War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black ISBN: 1-56858-258-7 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Chapters trace the roots of the movement to 1904
Comment: Edwin Black's War Against The Weak: Eugenics And America's Campaign To Create A Master Race is the story of eugenics and the American campaign to create a master race and is an exceptional history and offers insightful ethical considerations of the American eugenics movement. Chapters trace the roots of the movement to 1904, when a small group of scientists launched a new race-based concept, funded by American corporate institutes and foundations. Eugenics was even sanctioned by the Supreme Court and resulted in racist laws in over 27 states. This eye-opening social history belongs on the shelves of any college-level collection of American social issues and history.
Rating: 3
Summary: I just finished the book...
Comment: ...and have to say it was a GREAT READ! I'm going to keep this short, simple, and to the point; give this book a shot. I feel I've gained a very unique perspective of WWII and it's relationship to the US.
I was walking out of Barnes and Nobles only a week ago as my eyes grazed over the cover of the book on a shelf. Out of curiousity, I picked it up and was immediately engrossed by the first few pages. I venture to say any American would be, too. Edwin Black provides a clear, comprehensible history of not only eugenics, but the formation of modern genetics. You will uncover a largely untold piece of American history, as unbelievable and shocking as it may be. My friends wouldn't believe me when I shared the contents of this book with them; so I challenged them to read it. I finished it in under a week and am passing my copy along to them...I'm also taking the time to write this on Amazon...the book is that good.
Rating: 4
Summary: How Not to launch a eugenics program
Comment: Edwin Black should have a great sense of satisfaction, as reviewers unanimously express shock, outrage, horror and disgust at this book's revelations of America's complicity in the pseudoscience behind the Master Race and the Final Solution. Had some of the great philanthropic institutions and social engineers of the time had their way, America would have tried to keep up with the Nazi's!
Our knowledge of the past may prevent us from repeating our mistakes, but unfortunately, this tome, with its academic aura of footnotes and references, serves primarily to solidify the perception that ALL things linked to Nazism must be summarily rejected. Barely beneath the "factual reporting" surface of this book seethes a swirling hatred of the Third Reich's creators and supporters. It makes for gripping reading and allows the author to foster a sense of foul conspiracy and sinister plot in the reader's mind. Entertainment trumps scholarship.
I have no problem with entertainment, as long as the masquerade serves to deliver some grains of truth. What I do take issue with is the abandonment of scholarship in the book's eye to the future. Yes, there were horrors; yes, we went astray; but to think that we can permanently reject EVERYTHING associated with eugenics is to bury our heads in the sand. Sooner or later, we will be forced to deal with physical and biological facts that will not go away-our resources are not boundless; our genes, the foundations of our specie's existence, are physically frail and in constant need of assessment and selection; our current infatuation with the sanctity of the individual must eventually be balanced by an increased sense of each individual's responsibility to our society. War Against the Weak, while obliquely referencing these issues, ultimately contributes to their perpetuation because Mr. Black fails to suggest that some aspects of eugenics should be retrieved from the dustbin of history.
Common wisdom teaches that noble ends do not justify ignoble means. But noble goals are not made despicable when pursued by foul means. It is the means that were misguided, not the goal. To think that we will somehow survive and prosper without doing our genetic housekeeping is pure folly.
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Title: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black ISBN: 0609607995 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Pub. Date: 12 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea by Elof Axel Carlson ISBN: 0879695870 Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism by Nancy Ordover ISBN: 0816635595 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State by G. K. Chesterton, Michael W. Perry ISBN: 1587420023 Publisher: Inkling Books Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine by Edwin Black ISBN: 0786708417 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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