| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. By Edwin Black. (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003. xxviii, 550 pp. $27.00, ISBN 1-56858-258-7.)
This is the broadest survey to date of eugenics in America, England, and Germany from Sir Francis Galton to the present.	1
Edwin Black is a journalist best know for his controversial best seller, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (2001). The author has done an impressive job of pulling together a large team of researchers to produce this sweeping survey in less than three years. While he prides himself on the "obsessive documentation" of his "hair splitting fact checkers" who checked and double-checked and "triple-checked in a rigorous multistage verification regimen" (p. xxii), the book inevitably has gaping holes. Entire terrains were missed, as one would expect from a journalist doing a survey of decades of scholarship with the single-minded focus of writing a popular and controversial history.	. . .

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