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Candice Millard [1968-0] American

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Candice Sue Millard is an American writer and journalist. She is a former writer and editor for National Geographic and the author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, a history of the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition, Theodore Roosevelt's exploration of the Amazon Rainforest in 1913 and 1914.

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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.		101
As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.		102
'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.		103
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.		104
When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.	Courage	105
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.		106
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.		107
I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'		108
I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.		109
Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.		110
I'm very interested in science.		111

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