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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,019 ratings — published 2003
The Lies They Told (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.30 — 36,648 ratings — published 2025
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,715 ratings — published 2016
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.31 — 87,285 ratings — published 2013
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,615 ratings — published 2022
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.14 — 237,973 ratings — published 2003
Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,286 ratings — published 1922
Only the Beautiful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.45 — 52,904 ratings — published 2023
The Calamity Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.62 — 235,109 ratings — published 2026
Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.05 — 78 ratings — published 2001
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (Volume 17) (American Crossroads)
by (shelved 12 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.96 — 137 ratings — published 2005
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.84 — 174 ratings — published 1985
Second Glance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.80 — 51,643 ratings — published 2003
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,271 ratings — published 2018
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,430 ratings — published 1982
Take My Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.35 — 117,347 ratings — published 2022
Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.80 — 40 ratings — published 2004
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,143,058 ratings — published 1932
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.66 — 462,821 ratings — published 2020
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.10 — 358 ratings — published 2016
From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.06 — 142 ratings — published 2004
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.94 — 243 ratings — published 2008
The Foundling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.89 — 15,063 ratings — published 2022
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,845 ratings — published 2021
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.05 — 912 ratings — published 2019
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.79 — 89 ratings — published 1994
American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.15 — 68 ratings — published 2003
Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.83 — 174 ratings — published 2006
Women of a Promiscuous Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,576 ratings — published 2026
Superior: The Return of Race Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,289 ratings — published 2019
The Sunflower House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,503 ratings — published 2024
The Last Carolina Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,056 ratings — published 2023
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.24 — 34 ratings — published 2010
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.12 — 62,022 ratings — published 2020
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.14 — 351 ratings — published 1984
Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published 2008
A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (Bioethics and the Humanities)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.12 — 26 ratings — published 2010
Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.12 — 424 ratings — published 2013
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.57 — 114 ratings — published 2008
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,378 ratings — published 1997
The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.13 — 71 ratings — published 1991
The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.87 — 67 ratings — published 1996
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,897 ratings — published 2017
The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published 2002
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.10 — 56,031 ratings — published 2013
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,617 ratings — published 2007
Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.62 — 24 ratings — published 1995
The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.33 — 189 ratings — published 1916
Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 3.38 — 860 ratings — published 2011
Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eugenics)
avg rating 4.18 — 38 ratings — published 2008
“I cannot shake the conviction that life is (usually) worth living, and that we should continue to create the conditions for intelligent life to experience beauty, create art, discover how the world works, and continue to set and satisfy goals that presuppose a complex form of intelligence. It is at this point that our intuitions bottom out. If you think that life is pointless, given that we will leave no trace in 20 billion years, it is hard to know how to convince you to believe otherwise. An obligation to reproduce, no matter how weak it is, cannot exist unless there is value to the future experiences intelligent creatures will have.”
― Creating Future People
― Creating Future People
“The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.”
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