Biographies Quote by David Edelstein

Obviously I'd love to see Demetrious Johnson, you know, 'Demetrious Johnson $500,000 payout baby,' absolutely.

— Demetrious Johnson

Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I…

— Robert Dallek

I would put my million dollars up as well.

— James Randi

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among…

— Harold Acton

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

— Hank Williams, Jr

I'm the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn't write another book. I'd be so busy collecting awards! I'd be posing…

— Ann Coulter

Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

— Val Kilmer

Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

— Muhammad Ali

If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come in at…

— Ben Dolnick