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

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

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

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.

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

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.