The Orphans of Davenport  by Marilyn Brookwood

The Orphans of Davenport

Marilyn Brookwood

12 hours, 25 minutes first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
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“Doomed from birth” was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited t...

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