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

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

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