Candice Millard

“Garfield's shooting had also revealed to the American people how vulnerable they were. In the little more than a century since its…

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“I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.”

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“I must say that I thought there was some derangement of his mental organization.”

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“One of Roosevelt's most entrenched beliefs, as a cowboy, a hunter, a soldier, and an explorer, was that the health of one…

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“Of course I deprecate war,” he wrote, “but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.”

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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of…

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“The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future…

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“convex side of the train,” he wrote, “when both the”

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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…

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“The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself…

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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have…

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“Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American…

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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

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'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

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When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of…

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“I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war,” Roosevelt told the spellbound…

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“Although each of these disparate groups trusted Garfield, it was not until they were plunged into a common grief and fear that…

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“Far from its outward appearance, the rain forest was not a garden of easy abundance, but precisely the opposite. Its quiet, shaded…

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“during his first year at the Eclectic that, by his second year, the school had promoted him from janitor to assistant professor.”

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“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of…

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“Tonight, I am a private citizen. To-morrow I shall be called to assume new responsibilities, and on the day after, the broadside…

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I'm very interested in science.

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“overhead with an eye on the horrid banquet.” In the silence, with the full brunt of”

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“When he wasn't too sick to sit up, Roosevelt sought comfort and distraction in the world that he knew best: his library.…

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