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

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

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.

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.