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

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

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.

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.

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.