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Rule Breaker Investing

Extra: Interview with Candice Millard, Bestselling Author and Honorary Fool

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

4.5928 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When one of your favorite authors stops by the office, a 10-minute interview just won't do! Lucky for us, Candice Millard was generous with her time here at Fool HQ. In this bonus episode, David goes into greater depth about Millard's New York Times bestsellers The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic, as well as her upcoming epic story of the making of Winston Churchill, Hero of the Empire.

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0:00.0

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

0:07.0

Well, I don't have a big lead in here.

0:12.0

If you're listening to this bonus extra of this Well, I don't have a big lead in here.

0:12.6

If you're listening to this bonus extra

0:14.7

of this week's Rule Breaker Investing Podcast,

0:17.3

you probably know it's a continuation

0:20.0

of my interview with Candice Millard.

0:22.0

Now, every question you're going to hear is fresh and additive,

0:25.2

so this is in addition to our conversation earlier and I just kind of pick it up right there.

0:30.5

Thanks for about a hundred years or so in each of these three books.

0:43.4

Now is that a coincidence?

0:44.9

Is it your instinct or are you trying to specialize in some way?

0:48.7

I'm fascinated by that period in time and I didn't set out thinking,

0:52.5

this is the time I want to write about.

0:54.7

It's just I happen to find stories within that time.

0:56.8

But I will admit, I love it.

0:58.9

It's there's something very evocative about the late 19th,

1:02.1

early 20th century. and I feel like you can really you can see it

1:06.3

but you can also hear it, smell it, taste it, it's just sort of cinematic itself.

1:13.0

But more than that, what draws me to that time

1:16.0

is there's just a wealth of primary source material,

1:19.0

which is what you need in any non-fiction,

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