Imbeciles
the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck
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Word Count
100,500 words, Guess
Page Count
402 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveimbecilessupreme0000cohe
- Internet Archiveimbecilessupreme0000cohe_r7m6
- ISBN-139781594204180
- ISBN-101594204187
- Library of Congress Control Number2015044207
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number911171862
- Better World Books9781594204180
- Open LibraryOL27199854M
Classifications
- DDC344.7304/8
- LCCKF224.B83 C64 2016
- LCCKF224.B83C64 2016
Description
"One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land. New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority--including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization"--
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