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To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

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Peter Morgan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 10
Film Producer
Film Writer
Playwright
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London
England
Peter Julian Robin Morgan
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