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….

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant….

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 ….

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day..

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there..

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. milit….

Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is ….

Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to….

A hero is someone we can admire without apology..

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown. The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to nei….

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity..

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states….

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do..

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage..

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic..

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and th….

The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots ….

I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divor….

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..

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-….

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it..