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, Hitler referring to it as "his Bible".