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Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for NonfictionOne 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 expose, 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.From the Hardcover edition. Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United ... A survey of the shocking history of unwanted sterilization and eugenics programs in the United States in the 20th century. Eugenics in the United States Today: Are We on the Same ... Eugenics historian Edwin Black carefully described the development of the Eugenics movement from the period of time beginning with the work of Charles Darwin in 1859 ... Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - Wikipedia Early life. Holmes was born in Boston Massachusetts the son of the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage Public Discourse While doing research for an academic paper on the topic of same-sex marriage and political liberalism I was struck by how many authors including judges draw an ... John Holdren Obama's Science Czar says: Forced abortions ... John Holdren Obama's Science Czar says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet Book he authored in 1977 advocates for extreme ... BUCK v. BELL FindLaw United States Supreme Court BUCK v. BELL (1927) No. 292 Argued: April 22 1927 Decided: May 2 1927 [274 U.S. 200 201] Mr. I. P. Whitehead of Lynchburg Va. for ... The 5 Most Terrifying Supreme Court Decisions - Cracked.com The Supreme Court itself is not made up of gods or wizards. They are just people with agendas. And sometimes they have rendered opinions that make you wonder if the ... Americas Hidden History: The Eugenics Movement Learn ... Thank you for your work to education people about the American Eugenics movement. As a mom of a person with a disability I am keenly aware that the ideas of that ... Mind your genes! The dark legacy of eugenics lives on ... Related: The long shadow of eugenics. In Australia as in America eugenics was also cast as a progressive movement and sparked an unholy alliance between educators ... North Carolinas shocking history of sterilization - Salon.com People generally have two reactions when they hear about American eugenics programs for the first time: the first is shock and the second is distancing ...
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