Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and ….

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter cou….

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today..

Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician….

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed..

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than an….

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story..

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures….

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective..

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minori….

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to….

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few ….

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that ….