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Candice Millard 

Jimmy P. Morgan, June 17, 2022 0 6 min read  
Over the past two decades, narrative historian Candice Millard has become one of America’s preeminent storytellers. While fully committed to the grinding work of comprehensive archival research befitting the hard-driven historians of days-gone-by, Millard’s fluid prose and sprightly sense...