
Longlisted for the 2022 PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a riveting and tightly argued history of eugenics and its ripple effects, by acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte. Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily...

"A well-told, richly contextualized investigation of an appalling episode in American history" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia...

