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"Eleanor is much more than an sheenters into conversations, opens debates, sketches in background. Sheinterprets and suggests, but never imposes. She projects curiosity,spontaneity, humour and goodwill. Her sense of respect, her tact, her utterlack of obsequiousness… and her uncanny ability to ask difficult questions…have endeared her to readers and listeners." — Carol Shields, from the foreword Eleanor Wachtel’s award-winning CBC Radio programme "Writers & Company" has set the gold standard for intelligent, insightful, rivetinginterviews. To mark the dawn of the new millennium, Wachtel talked to some ofthe most inspiring and influential thinkers of our time--people who haveforever changed their area of specialty and influenced the world around them.As she writes in her introduction, "I wanted to interview people who hadshaped the last century and whose influence would continue into the next… Ihoped to have wide-ranging conversations with some of the most inspiring menand women of our time, people who’ve made a difference." And what an outstanding list of people she