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One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" individuals the law of the land. New York Times best-selling publisher Adam Cohen instructs the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal custom: the Supreme Court's decision to champ eugenic sterilization for the higher good of the united states. In 1927, when the nation was swept up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a properly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile". It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who decided Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the country's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling stars of most were the eight Supreme Courtroom justices who had been in the majority - including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the famous progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to go on a program of mass eugenic sterilization. Exposing this huge injustice - which led to the sterilization of 70,000 People in the usa - Imbeciles overturns appreciated myths and reappraises heroic information in its relentless pursuit of the truth. Together with the precision of the legal brief and the love of the front-page exposé, Cohen's Imbeciles is an unquestionable triumph of American legal and social record, an ardent accusation against these acclaimed men and our very own optimistic faith happening.
