When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
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President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
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