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A Hero Is Someone We Can Admire Without Apology.

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.

There's Still Time For Redemption If I Live Long Enough, Don't You Think?

I Admired Eugene Mccarthy’s Courage And Although I Left His Senate Staff After Four Years To Accept A Job As The Researcher On The Editorial Page Of The Washington Post, I Remained An Admirer.

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.