How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone ... — Margaret MacMillan

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Margaret MacMillan — Historian (Canadian)

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"How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?" — Margaret MacMillan

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How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?

Margaret MacMillan Historian • Canadian

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