Book · 2025 · History
The Purifying Knife
The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas
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“I'm Michael Phillips, an historian and the author of a book about racism in Dallas called White Metropolis and the co-author with longtime journalist Betsy Frioff of a history of eugenics in Texas called The Purifying Knife.”
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“and the co-author of a recently published book about the eugenics movement in Texas called The Purifying Knife.”