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Bruinius, Harry.

Title Better for all the world : the secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity / Harry Bruinius.

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New York : Knopf, 2006.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction	363.92 BRUINIUS	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	363.92 BRU	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction	363.9209 BRUINIUS	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department	363.92 BR	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references ([369-386]) and index.
Contents	bk. 1. Introduction -- I. Prologue : a simple and painless procedure -- II. An epic quest in the modern world -- bk. 2. Three generations of imbeciles -- III. The purity of our women -- IV. A forgotten gravestone -- bk. 3. The sins of the fathers -- V. Hottentots in Kantsaywhere -- VI. A city upon a hill -- VII. The hideous serpent of hopelessly vicious protoplasm -- VIII. But, oh, alas for youthful pride -- IX. Oh, the bliss of being a mother! -- X. Citizens of the wrong type -- XI. Catechisms old and new -- XII. The making of a master race -- XIII. Neighborly love and beyond -- XIV. Harry's secret -- bk. 4. Generations lost -- XV. The palace of justice -- XVI. "What they did to me was sexual murder" -- XVII. Epilogue : the apex of civilization.
Subject	Eugenics -- United States -- History.
	Involuntary sterilization -- United States -- History.
	Racism -- United States -- History.
	Eugenics -- history -- United States.
	Prejudice -- United States.
ISBN	0375413715

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