I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.