Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity
by Harry Bruinius
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375413715
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413711
- Seller
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 401, ""In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius shows how reformers across the nation transformed haphazard, locally run systems of charity and welfare?ostly church handouts and town asylums?nto government-run systems of welfare that aspired to make America a place where social and moral purity could reign, free from the ?ereditary defectives?f the past.""
Synopsis
Harry Bruinius was born in Chicago and attended Yale University, where he studied theology, and Columbia University, where he studied journalism. He is a frequent contributor to The Christian Science Monitor, a professor of journalism at Hunter College and is the founder of The Village Quill, a work space for writers in TriBeCa. He lives in Manhattan.
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- Bookseller
- The Edmonton Book Store (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 183009
- Title
- Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity
- Author
- Harry Bruinius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375413715
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413711
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo
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