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History with David Rubenstein
Candice Millard
Season 5
Episode 8
Candice Millard, in conversation with David M. Rubenstein, offers an extraordinary account of President Garfield’s momentous, if brief, presidential career, and the legacy left not only by his work but by his death.
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