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We usually think of eugenics as a social policy that arose in Nazi Germany. But the United States built eugenic institutions where the unwanted were put away long before Hitler rose to power, and, as Michael D'Antonio reveals here, we kept these institutions operating long after World War II ended. This is a brilliant, masterfully reported story, and by recounting the lvies of the boys incarcerated at Fernald State School in Massachusetts, he has written a deeply moving book of lasting historical importance.
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