Source Notes 
Persons Interviewed
My thanks to those who agreed to be interviewed for this biography. They include:
- David Adler
- Mike Allen
- Lorinda Ash
- Robert Barnett
- David Bauder
- Joy Behar
- Geoffrey Bennett
- Leslie Bennetts
- Cindi Berger
- Brad Blakeman
- Michael Bloomberg
- Bill Boggs
- Peter Brown
- Kimberly Butler
- Amanda Butterbaugh
- Bill Carter
- Chris Christie
- Connie Chung
- Alexandra Cohen
- Richard Cohen
- Ann Compton
- Paul Costello
- Katie Couric
- John Dickerson
- Bob Dole
- Sam Donaldson
- Susan Douglas
- Carol Edgar
- Stuart Eizenstat
- Amy Entelis
- Jimmy Finkelstein
- Lola Finkelstein
- Steve Friedman
- Bill Geddie
- Wendy Goldberg
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Meryl Gordon
- Rex Granum
- Lloyd Grove
- Allen Grubman
- Louise Grunwald
- Jessica Stedman Guff
- Tammy Haddad
- Kathryn Harris
- Sharon King Hoge
- Bob Iger
- Christopher Isham
- Jennifer Maguire Isham
- Sara Just
- Christina Kasman
- Jay Kernis
- Suzanne Kianpour
- Henry Kissinger
- Lori Klein
- Rick Klein
- Ted Koppel
- Peter Kornbluh
- Brooke Kroeger
- Howard Kurtz
- Brian Lamb
- Dale Leibach
- Abby Lester
- Phil Lipof
- Barbara Lustig
- Richard Lustig
- Alexander Marquardt
- Meghan McCain
- Nancy Shevell McCartney
- Mike McCurry
- Cynthia McFadden
- Phyllis McGrady
- Mary McNamara
- Susan Mercandetti
- Andrea Mitchell
- Pat Mitchell
- Barbara Mutterperl
- Victor Neufeld
- Bridget O’Brian
- Kate O’Brian
- Norah O’Donnell
- Jerry Oppenheimer
- Norman Ornstein
- Norman Pearlstine
- Maurie Perl
- Pam Pisner
- John Podesta
- Charles Ponce de Leon
- Jen Psaki
- Sally Quinn
- Michael Raab
- Gerald Rafshoon
- Paul Richter
- Marie Ridder
- Deborah Roberts
- Charlie Rose
- Ira Rosen
- Jeanne Safer
- Diane Sawyer
- Linda Peek Schacht
- Jeffrey Schneider
- Noah Shachtman
- Lynn Sherr
- Ben Sherwood
- Betsy Shuller
- Peggy Siegal
- Anita Siegenthaler
- Curtis Sittenfeld
- David Sloan
- Kerry Smith
- Robin Sproul
- Steven D. Stark
- Brian Stelter
- Donna Svennevik
- Anne Sweeney
- Katie Nelson Thomson
- Chris Vlasto
- Richard Wald
- Chris Wallace
- Rob Wallace
- Bruce Weber
- Joella Werlin
- Betsy West
- Av Westin
- David Westin
- Ellen Rossen Westin
- Jeannie Williams
- Mary Alice Williams
- Alicia P. Q. Wittmeyer
- Julian Zelizer
- Jeff Zucker
Note: Some of those interviewed asked not to be identified by name.