Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United States throughout the twentieth century. With an original emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation brings to light many little-known facts–for example, that one-third of the involuntary sterilizations in this country occurred in California between 1909 and 1979–as it … More >>
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
