The Passing of the Great Race

The Passing of the Great Race
	Title page of the first 1916 edition of The Passing of the Great Race.
Author	Madison Grant
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Ethnology Europe; ;
Publisher	Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication date	1916
OCLC	400188
LC Class	GN575 .G75 1921

The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History is a 1916 racist and pseudoscientific^[1]^[2] 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.

^ Hoff, Aliya R. (12 July 2021). "Embryo Project Encyclopedia: The Passing of the Great Race; or The Racial Basis of European History (1916), by Madison Grant". Arizona State University. Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ Alexander, Charles C. (1962). "Prophet of American Racism: Madison Grant and the Nordic Myth". Phylon. 23 (1). Clark Atlanta University: 79. doi:10.2307/274146. JSTOR 274146.