A Hero Is Someone We Can Admire

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.

Presidents Often Disappoint, But First Ladies Rarely Do.

While Many Applauded Oprah For Opening Her Heart To Young Girls In South Africa, Some Criticized Her For Not Investing In The Youth Of America.

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.

People Forget That Unauthorized Does Not Mean Untrue And Authorized Does Not Mean Authentic.