The Passing Of The Great Race
The Passing of The Great Race; or, The racial basis of European history was an influential book of scientific racism written by the American eugenicist, lawyer, and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant in 1916. The book was largely ignored when it first appeared but went through several revisions and editions; it was never a best seller. The book put forward Grant's theory of "Nordic superiority" and argued for a strong eugenics program in order to "save the waning 'Nordics' from inundation of other race types". Grant's propositions to create a strong eugenics program for the "Nordic" population to survive was repudiated by Americans in the 1930s and Europeans after 1945.
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