T.J. Stiles and David Blight: The Epic Life

What It Takes by Academy of Achievement

Mar 27, 202300:59:26Society & Culture

These two Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers have spent their careers delving into the lives of Americans who changed the course of U.S. history. T.J. Stiles and David Blight talk here about how historical biography can...

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