Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue

Dustin Hoffman

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Steven Spielberg

Kenneth Cole

Beverly Sills

James P. Rubin

Natalie Portman

Don Hewitt

Mike Nichols

Ronald O. Perelman

Gene Wilder

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Jason Alexander

Richard Holbrooke

Kati Marton

Joan Rivers

Jerome Groopman

Sarah Jessica Parker

Leon Wieseltier

Nora Ephron

Aaron Brown

Fran Drescher

Edgar Bronfman Sr.

Leonard Nimoy

Tony Kushner

Ed Koch

Barry Levinson

William Kristol

Kyra Sedgwick

Max Frankel

Alan and Marilyn Bergman

Alan Dershowitz

Wendy Wasserstein

Barney Frank

Richard Meier

Ruth Reichl

Richard Dreyfuss

Mike Wallace

Shawn Green

Stephen Sondheim

Eliot Spitzer

Harold Prince

Stephen Breyer

Aaron Sorkin

Gloria Steinem

Larry King

Mark Spitz

Alan (Ace) Greenberg

Charles Grodin

Kitty Carlisle Hart

Norman Lear

David Copperfield

Morley Safer

William Shatner

Linda Fairstein

Paul Mazursky

Ellen Goodman

Jeff Zucker

Neil Simon

Al Franken

Diane von Furstenberg

Acknowledgments

Epilogue

Photo Credits

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