Inventing America's Worst Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael

by Nathaniel Deutsch

Book Overview

This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how a poor white family from Indiana was scapegoated into prominence as America's "worst" family by the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, then "reinvented" in the 1970s as part of a vanguard of social rebellion. In what becomes a profoundly unsettling counter-history of the United States, Nathaniel Deutsch traces how the Ishmaels, whose patriarch fought in the Revolutionary War, were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520255240
• ISBN13: 9780520255241
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"