Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Author: Cohen, Adam
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
10.2
Points
22.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
111340
Points per Word
0.000198
Page Count
402
Points per Page
0.054726
Description
One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 BUCK v. BELL ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land.