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(laughs) >> rose: i always bece very sad when you descre th end of hilife. ken burns told me every time h ran the film as he was editing his dumentary heouldburst into tears. every timee showed that last... with the actors talking about what happened >> the truth is even as i was finishing the book the last couple months of it i couldn't bear the knowledge that he was going to die. i've lived wit this man for ten years and suddenly he was going to be gone. >> rose: to love shakespeare was part of the nature of this man? >> huge. nora and i talked about this when we were working on the book because she did a lot of research on the theater part of the book. think about what shakespeare... first of all, he memorized shakespeare. he could talk with aors, he could make all the moves the actors did. he knew it as well as any profession knew shakespeare and shakespeare's writing about tragedy and betrayal, wars, all the things he's dealing with. those huge themes are shakespearean, so he's loved him from the time he was a child. itas said when he got a copy of shak

today hilife is focused on what heays is the threat of national insolvency, he committed 1 bilon of his for tune into his undation to raise awareness about the country'fiscalhallenges. he just published his tobiography, it is called" the education of an american drear "how aon of greek immigrants leaed his way from a nebska diner to washinon, wall street and bend. i'm pleased to have him here athis table. welce. >> thank you, arlie. >> ros back, i should say. now i want toalk about many things. ani want to come back to the book. t was writing the book cathartic, was it dficult? how did you approach it? >> you ha only covered half of it. it w exhausting. was like tt dk cloud, younow, of who was it, not pollas in the cartoons hanging over youhead. u wake up every day say what am going toe done with this da thing but you can't not do it, you know. >> rose: yes. >> so one of the happy days of my life is when i turned in the manusipt. >> ros how did you go abouwriting it? >> wl, i did it a nights. and i did it on ekends because i wasworking at blackstone at thtime. >> rose: but, d what was y

. >> ros (laughs) his new memoir "eating" los back at hilife through the ism of food.'m eased to havejason epstein backt thisable. lcome. do you misthe plishing buness and the role that you played? no, i'm hap to be o of the business because the busiss is going through great anguish now, agony. and it's ing to be renstitutes. anthat's going to b at the expense of the existing industry i'm not quite out of it, because i've deloped a business based on a machine, like an a.t.m., that receivea dital file from anywhere and prints as a quality pape back bookn a matterf minutes. and we are... i n't be specific, but we're at this pot about to announce a partnership with a major prting company to market and service it throught the world and we have another arngement th an important publishing group in china and i think that will be one of the ways which the book business will survive in the fute. >> rose: what's thehreat to the book business? >>ell, it's not as simple as many pple think. it's... digitization is going to change evething. it's going to change the whole nature of