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The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children’s Intelligence
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Author:
Marilyn Brookwood
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
July 27, 2021
Psychologist and historian Marilyn Brookwood chronicles how a band of young psychologists in 1930s Iowa shattered the nature-versus-nurture debate and overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development.
What The Reviewers Say
... gripping, meticulously researched.
... excellent.
With this riveting history of an unsung scientific breakthrough in the 1930s, psychologist Brookwood tells how U.S. state and federal governments, backed by mainstream psychologists, had for decades enforced eugenicist policies.
... engrossing.
