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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 14:01:00 -

There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 14:02:00 -

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.

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.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 14:03:00 -

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.

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.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 14:04:00 -

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 14:05:00 -

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 14:06:00 -

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 14:07:00 -

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.

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.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 14:08:00 -

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

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Andrew Scott Berg (A. Scott Berg)

2025-02-20 14:09:00 -

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

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Alan Whitney Brown (A. Whitney Brown)

2025-02-20 14:10:00 -

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

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