As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.