In February 1980, Graham opened the Repository for Germinal Choice and stocked it with the seed of gifted scientists, inventors, and thinkers. Believing America was facing genetic catastrophe, Robert Graham, an eccentric millionaire, decided he could reverse the decline by artificially inseminating women with the sperm of geniuses. Now, in The Genius Factory, Plotz unfolds the full and astonishing story of the Nobel Prize sperm bank and its founder%u2019s radical scheme to change our world. The next morning, he received an email response, then another, and another%u2013each person desperate to talk about something they had kept hidden for years.

Plotz wrote an article for Slate inviting readers to contact him%u2013confidentially%u2013if they knew anything about the bank. In early 2001, award-winning columnist David Plotz set out to solve the mystery of the Nobel Prize sperm bank. But the bank quietly closed its doors in 1999%u2013its founder dead, its confidential records sealed, and the fate of its children and donors unknown. The Repository for Germinal Choice%u2013nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank%u2013opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a sperm donor from its roster of Nobel-laureate scientists, mathematical prodigies, successful businessmen, and star athletes. It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out.

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