I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’
A. Scott Berg
A. Scott Berg
I like my subjects
I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
A. Scott Berg
I’m so blessed to
I’m so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
A. Scott Berg
When most people think
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister’s son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
A. Scott Berg
There is always a
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
A. Scott Berg
I read my first
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. Scott Berg
I developed a mania
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald – by the time I’d graduated from high school I’d read everything he’d written. I started with ‘The Great Gatsby’ and moved on to ‘Tender Is the Night,’ which just swept me away. Then I read ‘This Side of Paradise,’ his novel about Princeton – I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
A. Scott Berg
Clark Gable seemed fascinating
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn’t so much information about him. Today, you’re on television all the time.
A. Scott Berg
I am a compulsive
I am a compulsive worker. But I’m also a compulsive relaxer.
A. Scott Berg
I don’t know of
I don’t know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
A. Scott Berg