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20.B) Death by Lightning, an interview on the assassination of James Garfield with Candice Millard
[Abridged] Presidential Histories
11/13/25
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Historian Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic, discusses what it's like to have your book turned into a major Netflix Miniseries, Death by Lightning, and what first attracted her to the story of President James Garfield and the assassin Charles Guiteau.
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