The Passing of the Great Race
Title page of the first 1916 edition of The Passing of the Great Race. | |
| Author | Madison Grant |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
Publication date | 1916 |
| Publication place | United States |
| OCLC | 400188 |
| LC Class | GN575 .G75 1921 |
| Part of a series on |
| Eugenics in the United States |
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The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History is a 1916 racist and pseudoscientific book by American lawyer, anthropologist, and proponent of eugenics Madison Grant (1865–1937). Grant expounds a theory of Nordic superiority, claiming that the "Nordic race" is inherently superior to other human "races". The theory and the book were praised by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis.