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To Hold The Reader's Attention, You Have To Bring The Person Who's Reading The Book Inside The Experience Of The Time: What Was It Like To Have Been Alive Then? What Were These People Like As Human Beings?

I Don't Pick My Presidents Because They Were Great Presidents. I'm Not Much Interested In Ranking Presidents And Who Is The Best And Who Is The Worst. I Am Much More Inclined To Be Interested In Them If They Had An Interesting Life And If They Were A Complete Person - And By That I Mean They Also Had Flaws And Failings.

Napoleon Could Never Imagine That Some People Loved Their Country As Much As He Loved His Own.

I Think It's Best To Pick A Biographical Subject Who Lives To A Ripe Old Age. Older People Tend To Relax And Speak Their Minds. They're Dropping Some Of The Masks That They've Been Wearing. There's A Candor.

The Pull, The Attraction Of History, Is In Our Human Nature. What Makes Us Tick? Why Do We Do What We Do? How Much Is Luck The Deciding Factor?