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Named one of New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember from 2006." Booklist's Editors' Choice, 2006 "Brilliant... Bruinius' work [is] a masterpiece of American cultural history." — SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE “A powerful and engrossing read, as well as a poignant argument for humility, a plea that resonates in these hubristic times.” — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "Bruinius deftly combines analysis of how the American quest for moral and social purity prepared people to accept pseudo-science as a basis for national policy..." — THE NEW YORKER "Remarkable... a model of the best sort of journalism of ideas, being an impressively researched and well-thought-out cultural history of the horrible crimes committed in the name of an idea—eugenics—that fraudulently posed as a science." — RON ROSENBAUM, NEW YORK OBSERVER “This account of one of
America’s dirty little secrets is that rare thing for nonfiction: —DONNA CHAVEZ in a starred review for Booklist “Bruinius takes us into the minds of the thought leaders of the time, showing us how otherwise well-respected people could countenance the now-unthinkable act of forced sterilization. . . . Chilling.” — THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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