H.H. LAUGHLIN

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Before Hitler came to power Harry H. Laughlin laid the blueprint.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This book is a forensic investigation into how one American scientist-backed by the Carnegie Institution-helped shape the ideology and infrastructure of eugenics both in the United States and Nazi Germany. Laughlin's legislative fingerprints appear on the Immigration Act of 1924 anti-miscegenation laws state sterilization policies and ultimately the eugenic portions of Hitler's infamous Nuremberg Racial Decrees.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With access to forgotten archival sources and primary documents largely overlooked A.E. Samaan reconstructs a web of influence that spans elite universities international congresses prestigious institutions and wartime propaganda disguised as mainstream science. More than a biography this book is a reckoning of the deep roots of National Socialism's eugenics on American soil.</span></p><p></p><ul><li><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For readers of Edwin Black Robert Proctor and Timothy Snyder this meticulously documented work reveals how a progressive American science became a transatlantic engine of exclusion sterilization and genocide-and why history must never forget its original architects.</em></li></ul>