FIERCE. A PRODIGIOUS FEAT OF REPORTING. War Against the Weak offers a fierce, compelling, account of how American ideas helped inspire—if that’s the right word—Hitler’s Reich… War Against the Weak is well told and extraordinarily sad. It represents a prodigious feat of reporting, as Black has trolled every archive and read every letter. A very persuasive book.
SHOCKING AND GRIPPING. An impressive job and the resulting story is at once shocking and gripping.
IMPRESSIVE. Impressive, probably the history of eugenics for the foreseeable future.
WELL-DOCUMENTED. COMPREHENSIVE. An important, well-documented, comprehensive story, not known to most Americans, about a perversion of the pursuit of knowledge in the interest of race and social superiority.
CHILLING AND THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED. Chilling and thoroughly researched… it is a book whose message must be made known… for those who say “It can’t happen here.”
The Books of Edwin Black
British Petroleum and The Redline Agreement
The West’s Secret Pact to Get Mideast Oil
2011
Banking on Baghdad
Inside Iraq’s 7,000 Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict
2004
The Farhud
Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust
2010
War Against the Weak
Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race
2003, 2012
Nazi Nexus
America’s Corporate Connections To Hitler’s Holocaust
2009
IBM and the Holocaust
The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation
2001, 2012
The Plan
How to Rescue Society When the Oil Stops—or the Day Before
2008
The Transfer Agreement
The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
1984, 2001, and 2009
Internal Combustion
How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives
www.internalcombustionbook.com
2006
Format C:
A Novel
1999
Copyright
Copyright © 2003, 2012 Edwin Black
Second paperback edition 2012
Printed and published in the United States
Dialog Press, Washington, DC
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The Library of Congress cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Black, Edwin
War against the weak : eugenics and America’s campaign to create a master race / by Edwin Black.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 1-56858-258-7 (hardcover)
1. Eugenics—United States—History 2. Sterilization (Birth Control)—United States. 3. Human reproduction—government policy—United States. 4. United States—Social policy. 5. United States—Moral conditions. I. Title.
HQ755.5.U5B53 2003
363.9’7—dc21
2003048857
ISBN 978-0-914153-29-0 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-914153-30-6 (ebook)
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