When Mortals Play God: Eugenics and One Family's Story of Tragedy, Loss, and Perseverance

by John Erickson

Book Overview

American history is full of examples of discrimination in all forms, but never before has the wreckage from America's infatuation with eugenics and its state-sanctioned policy of hate toward the mentally ill been put in such personal terms. In this extraordinary debut book, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Erickson answers the questions that have long haunted an immigrant family: Why was a mother in her early twenties imprisoned and then sterilized?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538166690
• ISBN13: 9781538166697
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"