To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
—Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
About T. J.
I am the author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf: 2009), winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Knopf, 2002), winner of...