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Beulah author releases second historical novel

Brad McKim’s second historical novel, A Presidents Story Too: Another Novel of Power and Personality, delves into the lives of the fourteen men who followed Lincoln as Chief Executive.

McKim says, “I came to appreciate their strengths, their weaknesses, their victories, their potential, their passions and their tragedies. Most of all, I am fascinated by their humanity.”

The novel spans the tense aftermath of the Civil War, as nineteenth-century presidents labor to secure peace amid competing calls for forgiveness and retribution, to the first glimpses of modern America as the early twentieth-c...