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- Book Title
- Imbeciles : the Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Law, Science, Medical, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Ethics, American Government / Judicial Branch, Medical Law & Legislation, United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Legal History
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction 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 In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In Imbeciles , bestselling author Adam Cohen exposes the court's decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be "feebleminded" and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country. The 8-1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American law--including Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former U.S. president; and Louis Brandeis, a progressive icon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, considered by many the greatest Supreme Court justice in history, wrote the majority opinion, including the court's famous declaration "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell , a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being "swamped with incompetence." At the center was Carrie Buck, who was born into a poor family in Charlottesville, Virginia, and taken in by a foster family, until she became pregnant out of wedlock. She was then declared "feebleminded" and shipped off to the Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded. Buck v. Bell unfolded against the backdrop of a nation in the thrall of eugenics, which many Americans thought would uplift the human race. Congress embraced this fervor, enacting the first laws designed to prevent immigration by Italians, Jews, and other groups charged with being genetically inferior. Cohen shows how Buck arrived at the colony at just the wrong time, when influential scientists and politicians were looking for a "test case" to determine whether Virginia's new eugenic sterilization law could withstand a legal challenge. A cabal of powerful men lined up against her, and no one stood up for her--not even her lawyer, who, it is now clear, was in collusion with the men who wanted her sterilized. In the end, Buck's case was heard by the Supreme Court, the institution established by the founders to ensure that justice would prevail. The court could have seen through the false claim that Buck was a threat to the gene pool, or it could have found that forced sterilization was a violation of her rights. Instead, Holmes, a scion of several prominent Boston Brahmin families, who was raised to believe in the superiority of his own bloodlines, wrote a vicious, haunting decision upholding Buck's sterilization and imploring the nation to sterilize many more. Holmes got his wish, and before the madness ended some sixty to seventy thousand Americans were sterilized. Cohen overturns cherished myths and demolishes lauded figures in relentless pursuit of the truth. With the intellectual force of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page expos , Imbeciles is an ardent indictment of our champions of justice and our optimistic faith in progress, as well as a triumph of American legal and social history.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594204187
ISBN-13
9781594204180
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Book Title
Imbeciles : the Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Ethics, American Government / Judicial Branch, Medical Law & Legislation, United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Legal History
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Law, Science, Medical, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
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Kf224.B83c64 2016
Reviews
"Cohen revisits an ugly chapter in American history: the 1920s mania for eugenics...[in this] compelling narrative....He also tells a larger story of the weak science underlying the eugenics cause and the outrageous betrayal of the defenseless by some of the country's best minds...A shocking tale about science and law gone horribly wrong, an almost forgotten case that deserves to be ranked with Dred Scott, Plessy, and Korematsu as among the Supreme Court's worst decisions."-- Kirkus (starred review ) "Adam Cohen knows how to recognize a story and has the gift to tell it with disarming fidelity to facts that make us cringe. In that vein, Imbeciles made me question my longstanding admiration for the mind and character of Oliver Wendell Holmes and my fading hope that the Supreme Court can sometimes save us from ourselves."--Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution "Adam Cohen knows how to recognize a story and has the gift to tell it with disarming fidelity to facts that make us cringe. In that vein, Imbeciles made me question my longstanding admiration for the mind and character of Oliver Wendell Holmes and my fading hope that the Supreme Court can sometimes save us from ourselves." -- Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution "'Three generations of imbeciles are enough'--these are among the most haunting words in the history of the Supreme Court. In Imbeciles , Adam Cohen unearths the secret history of the case that moved Oliver Wendell Holmes to utter that notorious sentence. The book provides a stark portrait of the resilient eugenics movement--and a welcome warning about its sinister appeal."--Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Oath and The Nine "A powerfully written account of how the United States Supreme Court collaborated in the involuntary sterilization of thousands of poor and powerless women. Cohen's Imbeciles is that rarest of books--it is a shocking story beautifully told, and also the definitive study of one of the darkest moments in the history of American law."--John Fabian Witt, author of Lincoln's Code and The Accidental Republic "Imbeciles is at once disturbing, moving, and profoundly important. With the zeal of an investigative journalist and a novelist's insight, Adam Cohen tells the story of an injustice carried out at the highest levels of government, and how it reverberated across history and remains with us today. Cohen is one of our most gifted writers, and he has turned the story of the Supreme Court and American eugenics into one of the best books I've read in decades."- Amy Chua, John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law, Yale Law School, and author of The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, "'Three generations of imbeciles are enough'--these are among the most haunting words in the history of the Supreme Court. In Imbeciles , Adam Cohen unearths the secret history of the case that moved Oliver Wendell Holmes to utter that notorious sentence. The book provides a stark portrait of the resilient eugenics movement--and a welcome warning about its sinister appeal."--Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Oath and The Nine "A powerfully written account of how the United States Supreme Court collaborated in the involuntary sterilization of thousands of poor and powerless women. Cohen's Imbeciles is that rarest of books--it is a shocking story beautifully told, and also the definitive study of one of the darkest moments in the history of American law."--John Fabian Witt, author of Lincoln's Code and The Accidental Republic "Adam Cohen writes with an investigative journalist's tenacity and a novelist's moral insight. Imbeciles tells the story of Carrie Buck and American eugenics, describing how a shocking injustice was carried out at the highest levels of American government--with consequences that are still being felt today. An extraordinarily gifted writer, Cohen has written one of the best books I've read in decades."--Amy Chua, John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law, Yale Law School, and author of The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2015-044207
Dewey Decimal
344.7304/8
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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