Conversation on her new book and the resilience of america, even in turbulent times. You have typically written precedential biographies. This is a biography to some extent of your husband, and it is also a love story. What was the process like of writing this book as compared to all of your other incredible works . I was so used to writing about president s who had archives. I would want to talk to them. I knew them because it took me so long to write the books. Longer to write the book about World War ii than the war to be fought. Longer to write about the Civil War longer than twice the Civil War. I would always ask them questions. They never answered me. This time, i had this guy, my Guy Across The Hall from me in the same study. I was able to talk to him. He could answer my questions. He had an archive that was a miniarchive of what president s have, memos, diaries, letters. He saved everything in 300 boxes and finally decided when he turned 80 to open them