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

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.

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.

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