Foolish Heroes: Interview With Author Candice Millard — Plus: September Mailbag

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🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Candice Millard is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic, which David has praised in earlier episodes of the podcast. Today she sits down with David for a conversation about presidents, prime ministers, Fools, and non-fiction. Also, we dip into the mailbag to tell some listener stories, including one of the best exchanges ever to hit the Rule Breaker inbox. All that and more in this very Motley edition of Rule Breaker Investing.

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0:24.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:31.0	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
0:36.0	This is a special edition of Rule Breaker Investing because, well, two reasons really.
0:41.0	First of all, we have an in-studio guest. One of my favorite
0:44.9	authors, Candice Millard, who will be joining with us this week on Rule Breaker Investing.
0:49.1	And second, because we're also going to do mailbags. So I'm going to conflate both an author interview
0:55.5	and your mailbag into this one podcast.
0:58.4	And I hope bring it in under kind of the same sub 30 minute goal that I try to deliver almost unfailingly every week.
1:07.2	So the order of this is going to be, we're going to start with Candace today and then after Candace
1:12.2	Millard's appearance here, will go right to your mailbag.
1:16.2	And I should say before we start with Candice, this is a short form interview.
1:19.8	I'm really excited to let you know that this weekend coming out on Saturday we have a longer form.
1:24.8	So 25 to 30 more minutes just direct with the author learning more about her craft and other aspects
1:31.4	of being Candice Millard.
1:33.0	So a bonus extra for you this weekend.
1:35.0	So I remember mentioning to you late last year on this podcast
1:40.0	that I was really enjoying a book called The River of Doubt
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