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Amazon.com Review Robert Graham, the oddball inventor and millionaire at the heart of David Plotz's book, The Genius Factory , is the archetype for the cliché, "more money than brains." It was Graham who reckoned America was going to hell in a hand basket and the best way to halt the trend was to impregnate women with sperm donated by Nobel Prize winners and other overachievers (providing they were smart and white). Forget for the moment the not-so-thinly-veiled racism powering the whole eugenics movement that served as the backbone of Graham's Repository for Germinal Choice. Graham's super-sperm idea also conveniently overlooked the fact that the women carrying the babies would also leave a genetic imprint while ignoring the nurture-versus-nature argument. Though Plotz addresses these concepts in his book, the real reason to recommend it is its characters, the sperm bank progeny Plotz unearths through intense and covert legwork. The book's humor is also a selling point: "In abstract, donating sperm seemed fundamentally silly. But actually doing it was seductive," Plotz writes. "I had been accepted by the ultraexclusive Fairfax Cryobak! My sperm was 'well above average'! My count

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Author

David Plotz

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588364708

Category

science

Subjects

Social Science, Gender Studies, Fiction

Rating

3.49 / 5 (586 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14