Elmer Pendell
Elmer Pendell (18941982) was an American eugenicist and sociologist. Writing. Ashley Montagu, reviewing Pendell's edited volume "Society under Analysis" (1942), wrote that "none of the authors contributing to the present volume shows any but the merest tangential acquaintance with the physical sciences with which they deal". Reviewing Pendell's 1945 book "Population Roads to Peace or War", co-authored with Guy Irving Burch, Paul H. Landis wrote that "[s]ociologists will … classify it as propaganda rather than an objective scientific statement". The work argued that democracy would be imperilled if population growth did not slow. A 1947 follow -up to the work, similarly titled "Human Breeding and Survival: Population Roads to Peace or War", advocated population limitation as a means of reducing social problems such as hunger. In 1963, classical philologist and white supremacist Revilo P. Oliver favorably reviewed Pendell's book "The Next Civilization" in the John Birch Society journal "American Opinion", lauding Pendell's eugenic prescriptions for society. In 1991, Pendell's book "Why Civilizations Self-Destruct" was cited favorably by David Duke, a white supremacist.