The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Presidents including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995); and her most recent book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. S. She is the author of biographies of several U.