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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black Hardcover, 592 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-914153-05-6 / 0914153056 ISBN-13: 978-0-914153-05-4 / 9780914153054 The plans of Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis to create a Nordic "master race" are often looked upon as a horrific but fairly isolated effort. Less notice has historically been given to the American eugenics movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Although their methods were less violent, th |