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Just Saying Thank You I am at the University of Wisconsin majoring in History and Religious Studies. After seeing you speak of your book War Against the Weak on C-span, I found myself totally enamoured and immediately rushed out to the book store and obtained a copy. It is one of my very favorite non-fiction books. I can not express my gratitude and admiration of this work enough by way of email, so let me just say Thank you!
Adam Blackbourn Madison WI March 23, 2004
Scholarship and Bravery Your scholarship and bravery in writing the truth about this dreadful subject will one day make "you shine like a star for all eternity." I will buy your horrifying book, weep, and pray... I will also pray for you, Mr. Black, because you have told the truth and that's hard.
Pamela M Rudd Chattanooga, TN Jan 16, 2004

Broken new ground Conscience and Memory dictate the absolute necessity that everyone learn from the tragic mistakes of the past: the rise Nazi Germany, the rise of Supremacism in America that antedated and paralleled it, and the rise of Terrorism, both Domestic and International, in the world today that has been the outcome. Edwin Black has clearly broken new ground in making it possible for social and political responsibility to become a mandate for the future ethical ecology of America and it's global mission to spread democracy and economic self-determinism. We must never forget how we came to be here. With the help of Mr. Black's brilliant writings, the work of Steven Spielberg in capturing the story of Oscar Schindler: _Schindler's List_, and the overall mission of the Museum of Tolerance, we are beginning to make progress in that area."
American Computer Scientists Association Dr. Jack A. Shulman Cranford, NJ 07016 November 23, 2003

This book hit home I was first drawn to this book while watching an interview with Black concerning his book. I heard the word 'eugenics' and was not quite sure what that meant.This prompted me to tune in further and what I learned was amazing. I live on Long Island and travel frequently to Cold Spring Harbor for a day of relaxing and shopping. To know that at this very location the seeds of eugenics exploded was chilling. I am not, however, amazed at man's inhumanity to man as concerns America. We have our chilling history of wiping out an Indian population as they crossed America, after issuing them infected blankets of small pox: our incarceration of Japanese-American citizens during the war as they posed a potential yellow threat: and even our ability to pick and choose the sex of our children, and abortion of defective children in today's times. Early America was pristine, filled with family values, wholesome, at least as I compared it to today, and what knocked me off my chair was the knowledge that people, legislatures, state govt.'s, influential figureheads, and big money families were in this race for ethnic cleansing, a precursor to Hitler's Master Plan. I am a southern Italian American. This book hit home.
Rose Polis New York November 4, 2003

A eugenics-related event I witnessed In 1983, my wife and I witnessed social workers at a hospital in Gainesville, FL pushing sterilization consent forms into the hands of women who were still under the effects of anaesthesia from childbirth. (We yelled at them and chased them away, but regretfully, we did not report them.) So, I would be inclined to the opinion that this was NOT an isolated incident, and that probably in many places, sterilization of the poor and minorities without informed consent. Having just seen your lecture on your book "The War Against the Weak" on C-SPAN, I thought you would want to know about this.
Thomas E. Watts Barstow, California October 12, 2003

A truly fantastic book I'm writing to congratulate you on a truly fantastic book, which explains the facts in a clear and concise manner. More importantly, covers an area which most seem to have forgotten or have been unwilling to admit too. Being a young British man, that's only now starting to understand the lies and misinformation which is taught throughout the English educational system, which (similar to most countries) is the result of corporate doctoring somewhere along the line. I'm hoping that in most (if not all) cases, this is now more an action of embarrassment rather than purposely hiding the truth for the people which will lead our countries in the future. Unfortunately, I can't help but worry that there are so many people that are simply not aware of some of the enormous mistakes that have been made in the name of democracy and the 'good' of mankind (and I sometimes wonder if the words man and kind should ever be put together). After a quick search on the internet using AltaVista, it's amazing how many misguided people still believe the idea of removing the weak, rather than helping them. Hopefully, like me, you believe there is hope for the truth. If not in the short term, but sometime in the not too distant future. I intend to read your previous books, starting with the IBM based title, which very much appeals to me as I work in the information technology arena. Thank you once again for helping me understand a little more about the history of eugenics, and some of the forms is has and continues to take.
Simon Davison Burnaby BC Canada September 9, 2003

Thank You for Opening My Eyes This morning I saw you on Book TV. Thank you for opening my eyes to another of the dark annals of Americana. ...from the dirt swept under the rug of the United States ... from the backroads of history ... a part that is written out of the history books. Thank you for being there.
M. R. Joyner Honolulu October 12, 2003

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