Edwin Black, author of the radical and revelatory IBM and the Holocaust, is a dangerous man. He tells us things we don't want to hear, like, for instance, this: "The scientific rationales that drove killer doctors at Auschwitz were first concocted on Long Island." His groundbreaking War Against the Weak, Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race... is a scary and necessary book.

In a new book, War Against the Weak, investigative reporter Edwin Black makes the case that 20th Century American proponents of eugenics...had substantive ties to the architects of Hitler's racial extermination machine...Black lays bare the veins of collaboration between American eugenicists and Nazi scientists.

An important work... A well-documented, comprehensive exposition of a story not known to most Americans, about a perversion of the pursuit of knowledge in the interest of race and social superiority.

A new book paints a dark view of Olson, suggesting that he and other American proponents of the now discredited pseudo-science of eugenics helped fuel one of the most horrific nightmares of modern times. In War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, award-winning investigative author Edwin Black connects the Holocaust and other Nazi war crimes to the American eugenics movement, a crusade for selective breeding that led to the forced sterilization of nearly 70,000 Americans deemed “unfit.” A best-selling writer on the Holocaust, Black does not blame Olson and his colleagues for the Nazi atrocities. But he does argue that they hatched the quest to create a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master race here in the United States. He points the finger at top scholars of the era, political leaders, self-styled reformers and the wealthy industrialists who funded it all.