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.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

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 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.

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.