About
Marc Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series created for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He reveals the secret to a great interview and shares extraordinary stories of talking with Steve Martin, Clare Booth Luce and more.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- EG 2008
- Speaker
- Marc Pachter
- Year
- 2008
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- History, Art, architecture and design
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
- TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
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