War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

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 156858-258-7.)

This is the broadest survey to date of eugenics in America, England, and Germany from Sir Francis Gallon to the present.

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...