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95/100Author:
Adam Rutherford
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
November 15, 2022
Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich.
What The Reviewers Say
Sharp and timely study.
A short book about a big subject.
Fizzy and pugnacious little book.
Rutherford is an insider.
