RaveThe Atlantic...thoughtful, deeply intelligent, and immensely readable and entertaining ... The romantic intrigue makes for irresistible reading, but it’s also central to the book’s argument ... The very word culture, and the idea that people in one culture can learn from people in others, is taken for granted now. But King shows how revolutionary those concepts were at a time when scientists classified people as savage, barbarian, or civilized, and three-quarters of American universities offered courses in eugenics.
