A Hero Is Someone We Can Admire

I Have Believed In The Biographies I Have Written. I Truly Can Tell You That They Have Influenced Our Society Politically, Culturally, Socially.

My Biography Of Frank Sinatra Is Not Paean To His Music But Rather An Illumination Of The Man Behind The Music, Who Once Described Himself As 'an 18-karat Manic-depressive Who Lived A Life Of Violent Emotional Contradictions With An Over-acute Capacity For Sadness As Well As Happiness.

Kennedy Was Haunted By The Bay Of Pigs Invasion But Carried The Country Through The Cuban Missile Crisis. He Later Increased The Number Of U.s. Military Advisers To South Vietnam To More Than 16,000.

I Tend To Place My Own Value In Spirituality Rather Than Religiosity.

I Only Choose To Write About People Who Are Alive, Are Extremely Powerful And As Such Have Influenced Our Lives. I Try To Go Behind Their Constructed Myths To Find The Humanity Of The Person. It Takes Me About Four Years On Every Book And Requires Hundreds Of Interviews So I Choose People Whose Lives I Respect And Achievements Are Worth Recording.