... 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.

... a revealing and thoroughly researched history.

... a lucid and immersive history of how researchers in 1930s Iowa refuted prevailing notions about childhood development.