Georgetown professor Charles King is the author of Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century. The story of cultural anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) and 'a small band of contrarian researchers' who shaped the open-minded way we think now .... This superb narrative of debunking scientists provides timely reading for our 'great-again' era.