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Tomorrow's Children: The Goal of Eugenics, Ellsworth Huntington. First Edition.

Name: Tomorrow's Children: The Goal of Eugenics, Ellsworth Huntington. First Edition.
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Tomorrow's Children: The Goal of Eugenics,

Ellsworth Huntington

in conjunction with

The Directors of The American Eugenics Society

Rare first edition, first printing of the "catechism" of The American Eugenics Society, of which Huntington became the president of the board of directors in 1934, a year prior to publication. While the leaders of the Eugenics Research Association at Cold Spring Harbor and the Human Betterment Foundation in California sustained the rhetoric of race hygiene and openly supported race hygiene measures in Nazi Germany, the American Eugenics Society recognized the political liabilities of framing eugenics in racial terms. In 1934, AES president Ellsworth Huntington rewrote the eugenics catechism to appeal to democratic sentiments, the desire for the health and happiness of children, and the need to improve economic opportunities. Denoting their program the "new eugenics," the American Eugenics Society preserved the core philosophy of the "old" eugenics and the goal of a eugenic society through reproductive selection, while avoiding the explicitly racist rhetoric of the Nazi regime and its sympathizers.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1935. Publisher's original burnt orange cloth, lettered in brown; pp. x, 139. A very good or better copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy and square, a touch of wear to boards with a few minor stains. Small sticker removed from front pastedown, else internally clean with no markings. Jacket shows light general shelfwear and rubbing with a couple closed tears. Rare, particularly with the dust jacket, protected in archival mylar.

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Ellsworth Huntington

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