Freedom Is Found Through The Portals Of

History Is About Life. It's Awful When The Life Is Squeezed Out Of It And There's No Flavor Left, No Uncertainties, No Horsing Around. It Always Disturbed Me How Many Biographers Never Gave Their Subjects A Chance To Eat. You Can Tell A Lot About People By How They Eat, What They Eat, And What Kind Of Table Manners They Have.

Once I Discovered The Endless Fascination Of Doing The Research And Of Doing The Writing, I Knew I Had Found What I Wanted To Do In My Life. Every Book Is A New Journey. I Never Felt I Was An Expert On A Subject As I Embarked On A Project.

Washington Had Performed His Role To Perfection. It Was No Enough That A Leader Look The Part; By Washington's Rules, He Must Know How To Act It With Self-command And Precision.

In Time I Began To Understand That It's When You Start Writing That You Really Find Out What You Don't Know And Need To Know.

How Can We Know Who We Are And Where We Are Going If We Don't Know Anything About Where We Have Come From And What We Have Been Through, The Courage Shown, The Costs Paid, To Be Where We Are?