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Hi she got a little cat while were on better warn you up front. Im not going to be like other mothers but i promise ill never make you wait until until birthday presents. We were all together making this show which was the birth of this child. We made it funny. We made it emotional. And we all Felt Like, gosh, we did a good job with that. A lot of people in moved to tears, you know, and then literally the next day our world changed. It doesnt help matters when Prime Time tv has Murphy Brown mocking the importance of fathers. The Vice President reacted to it as if it was a threat to the existen...

Hi. See, you got a little hat. Mother would have loved it. While we're on the subject of mothers, i'd better warn you up front. I'm not going to be like other mothers. But i promise i'll never make you wait until [laughs] until after the cake to open your birthday presents. [music playing] we were all together, making this show, which was the birth of this child. We made it funny. We made it emotional. And we all felt like, gosh, we did a good job with that. A lot of people in america were watching this and moved to tears. And then literally the next day, our world changed. It doesn't help mat...

[laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense i think it is kind of an interesting phenomenon. I think that will be studied. Host when you think about today, do you compare it to any other period in history . Guest no, you know, as a historian, im intere...

So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all t...

You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think ...