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This accessible, 8-vol. reference focuses students attention on 160 notable individuals who have shaped American history, from the exploration of the continent to the present. Each chronologically arranged volume ties key people to significant events during a particular era. Balanced not only in gender and ethnic background, but also in viewpoint, the biographies in Profiles in American History offer a unique slant on event-based teaching. Stand-alone volumes include chapter-specific timelines; maps, illustrations and photographs; sidebars highlighting key facts; a bibliography; and a cumulative subject index. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (14)

Hitler's "Bible"
In 1934 one of Hitler's staff members wrote to Leon Whitney of the American Eugenics Society and asked in the name of the Fuhrer for a copy of Whitney's recently published book, The Case for Sterilization. Whitney complied immediately, and shortly thereafter received a personal letter of thanks from Adolf Hitler. In his unpublished autobiography, Whitney reported a conversation he had with Madison Grant about the letter from the Fuhrer. Because he thought Grant might be interested in Hitler's letter he showed it to him during their next meeting. Grant only smiled, reached for a folder on his desk, and gave Whitney a letter from Hitler to read. In this, Hitler thanked Grant for writing The Passing of the Great Race and said that "the book was his Bible."


Wonderful book...

Astonishing Read
Beautifully written and very Prophetic. I am a surprised at the low marks given this book until I saw the "reviews" that are either obscene or misspelled or both. Why do those of low I.Q. believe that a negative review by an idiot lends any weight to their argument?

Was given this book as a gift and would recommend it as an older tome about the White race at it's peak. I believe our best days are ahead of us, not behind; so I do not believe we are "passing". There were those who believed the Greek would pass from the earth beneath the weight of the Persian, but history happened a little differently.

The Hitler's bible
This trash-book was published first in 1910 decade.It was a best-seller and widely aclaimed book, in the United States.This book was also translated to german, french and other foreign languages.The author, an eugenicist, bever had a son.He died childless, in 1930 decade.
A famous person that read this book was Adolf Hitler.The german füeher told that, this trash-book as his bible.Are you looking for to read, the Hitler's bible?If yes, your search is over.This book is the Hitler's bible.Hitler himself declared this.
I read this book on internet site, for free.This book isn't just eugenicist, but also completily absurd, to modern science standards.To example, this book claims that Asia, not Asia was the continent that mankind existed first.

The Grandfather of White Supremacists
Most reasonable people who are even aware of "The Passing of the Great Race" suppose that it has been tossed on the garbage heap of phony science, eugenics, racism, and corporate statism. Guess again, folks! Take a look at the reviews of this book by our fellow "readers" on amazon! There are people who think Madison Grant is alive and well! And he might as well be, since all the disgusting hate speech in "The Passing" is being recycled by Coulter, Malkin, Steyn and other profiteers of the rantosphere.
This book is a primary source for historians of the past century, a book more widely influential than Mein Kampf. It was the bible of the second Ku Klux Klan. Unfortunately it also hoodwinked people of heart and mind like Jack London and Theodore Roosevelt. If ever a book challenged my commitment to free speech, this is it! I would certainly not censor it, but I avow that the world would be a happier place if it had never been written.
Slavs, Jews, Greeks, Italians, and most everyone else who considers himself/herself "white"! Heads up! YOU are not included in Grant's vision of the Great Race. The racism in this book is narrow indeed, limited to the Anglo-Saxon stock, best uncontaminated by Frenchies, who built western civilization, brought hope to the dark continents, and invented bubble gum.
Read it and groan; the trendy conservatism of Americans today is a rehash of Madison Grant. Hark back, friends, to an era when white supremacy was the core of "political correctness."

Unscientific, but makes sense on a sociological scale
Madison Grant's Passing of The Great Race was not very scientific, although many scientists at the time did support Grant's main claims. However, on a cultural level, one can see how peoples of northern ancestry tend to be of a stringer will than those of southern ancestry. Grant makes good arguments for Nordic superiority, using mostly recorded history rather than prehistoric anthropology. What I like about this book is that in it Grant warns of impending extinction of white Americans, especially those of colonialstock, as a result of unchecked immigration. Today it is relevant, although the problem has switched from Jews and Italians to Mexicans and other Hispanics. Grant also makes a good argument for eugenics. ... Read more