I Really Believe That What Happens One

Lincoln Had Internalized The Pain Of Those Around Him-the Wounded Soldiers, The Captured Prisoners, The Defeated Southerners. Little Wonder That He Was Overwhelmed At Times By A Profound Sadness That Even His Own Resilient Temperament Could Not Dispel.

My Books Are Written With A Strong Chronological Spine.

You Can Be Enormously Effective For A Period Of Time, Because It's Almost Like There's An Engine In You That Needs To Keep Going, And You Have A Greater Drive Than Other People - Who May Be More Happy And Balanced In Life - Because You Have To Keep Going Out And Proving Yourself Over And Over Again.

What I Think I've Learned Is That You're Never Going To Get It All Right, And You Can't Obsess About Having A Fact Wrong Or A Date Wrong Or Something Like That, As Long As You Tried As Best You Could. If You've Done The Kind Of Research That You're Sure Is Pretty Good, Then You Just Have To Have Confidence In It, So That Nothing Is Perfect In Life. I Think That Is What The Criticism Has Helped Me To Understand.

As A Historian, What I Trust Is My Ability To Take A Mass Of Information And Tell A Story Shaped Around It.