When I began the research to write Only the Beautiful at the start of the pandemic, I confess I didn’t know what the eugenics movement was. Many people I mention the term to now don’t, either. It’s a movement that has thankfully gone by the wayside, but sadly the ideology, I believe, is still with us, and that’s why I think the movement itself should not be forgotten. If we forget our history, we are more apt to repeat it, aren’t we? Hence this book.
