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Sunday Gazette-Mail | June 28, 1998| | Copyright

Forty years ago, a college adviser forced Stephen E. Ambrose to sign up for a history course. A premed student at the University of Wisconsin, Ambrose didn't see the point of it. But 15 minutes into the first lecture, he resolved to change his major.

"I had no idea history was about flesh-and-blood people," he recalled. "I was wowed by the way Professor Hesseltine drew you into the story."

Ambrose went on to make a career of working the same magic on readers. The biographer of President Dwight Eisenhower and Gen. George Custer, he wrote a stirring account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ...

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