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

by Nathaniel Deutsch (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $45.25

  Traces how the Ishmaels, whose patriarch fought in the Revolutionary War, were discovered in the slums of Indianapolis in the 1870s and became a symbol for all that was wrong with the urban poor. This book reveals how class, race, religion, and science have shaped the nation's history and myths.