As the title states, Just finished The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman.
I have always been interested in dark history but I am today years old when I learned the part America had to play in eugenics and ultimately the mass genocides globally in the early 19th century. The book was amazingly written and put me in a space in time I had no idea existed.
Who else read this book? What do you think?
Personally I am shook and need to talk about it!
by Cdawgg333
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Just picked this one up after seeing your post and wow you weren’t kidding about the American eugenics connection. Wiseman really doesn’t pull any punches with how deep that rabbit hole goes
The way she weaves the personal stories with the broader historical context is what got me – makes it impossible to just treat it as distant history when you’re following actual people through it