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This is over. applause ken burns, welcome. Thank you. Honored to meet you, great to have you here. Its my pleasure. Congratulations on this wonderful project. Thank you very much. I should say thats its the great good fortune of growing old and Public Television that i share the authorship of this with sarah burns and david mcmahon. Sarah burns happens to be my oldest daughter. This is proud moment for a partent. We made a film together, the three of us called the central park five. It came out a few years ago, and when that was done we were plowing directly into Jackie Robinson, and so when y...

But thats what you are, really. If i had to identify with a label, i would use liberal or progressive, because i find moderate doesnt really mean anything and it ends up being used against the muslim community. So how about inyourface liberal muslim feminist . Hinojosa inyourface muslim liberal feminist, which is. The feminist part is, you get a lot of followers and you get a lot of attention around that. So for our audience, just, you know, describe what a muslim feminist is, because some people might say, i dont understand that. Well, you know, as a muslim and a feminist and an egyptian woma...

Crowd applauds jon meacham welcome. Thank you sir. Nice to see you again. Delighted to be here. And you have another winner on your hands . Well i hope so, i hope so. Who knows these days in the Book Business. In the Book Business but its been a long time, a long journey. It has been. Why him . Because he matters. Hes a consequential president with an extraordinary life. Its an american saga. If we wrote this as a novel and submitted it, it would get bounced for being improbable. Not believable enough as fiction. No, heres what were going to do. On his 18th birthday, hes going to graduate from...

Hinojosa they dont know you as lisa halaby, the woman who you were. You were growing up as an american girl, and i think one of the things that people are fascinated by about you is the fact that you actually. You could make this decision to say, i was lisa. I am, or was lisa halaby, an american girl, but i could also be this, i could also be royalty of someplace else. This ability to basically say, i could be someone else, change your identity, is really quite extraordinary. Well, first of all, it was my husband who changed the identity in the way you described it, with a title, et cetera. I ...

Was an improbable dream. Its hard work and its controversial. Without information there is no freedom and its journalists who provide that information. Window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11 00. [laughter]. Marc maron, welcome. How are you . Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Im a little intimidated, i have to say. Really . Well, youre a great interviewer, and for those of us who do this sort of amateur interviewing, you are a professional, man, whether you know it or not. And to watch you or to listen to you do it is really inspiring. Well, thank you. Thats very flattering. ...