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By Paul A. Lombardo. 365 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8018-9010-9.

Paul Lombardo's book is an authoritative history of the U.S. Supreme Court's infamous decision, Buck v. Bell (1927), which held that Virginia's mandatory sterilization law did not violate Carrie Buck's constitutionally protected rights. Lombardo, an attorney and a historian who has played an important role in soliciting apologies for eugenics laws, chronicles the social, scientific, and legal background of the case, follows the lives of key players, and examines the effect that the case had on law and public opinion in the United States and in Europe. The book is lucidly written, well researched, thorough, and provocative.

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