The Masters

In order of appearance:

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Aristotle

Mark Twain

Joshua Foer

Maureen Dowd

Ed Cooke

Amanda Foreman

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Christopher Markus

Stephen McFeely

William Strunk

E.B. White

Stephen King

Jason Gay

Franklin D. Roosevelt

James Collins

Maryanne Wolf

Guy Kawasaki

Federico Fellini

Casey Schwartz

Woody Allen

Mick LaSalle

Stephen R. Covey

Terry Teachout

Manohla Dargis

A.O. Scott

Clive Thompson

Michel de Montaigne

Henry James

Tim Carmody

Nicholson Baker

Sir Winston Churchill

Mardy Grothe

Erin McKean

Leroy “Satchel” Paige

Humphrey Bogart

Julius J. Epstein

Philip G. Epstein

Howard Koch

William Schneider

Steve Kelley

Mike Lee

John Doerr

Vinod Khosla

Walter S. Mossberg

Joe Dator

Sherry Turkle

James W. Pennebaker

Diana Tamir

Jason Mitchell

Theodore Leavitt

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Geoff Dyer

John Irving

William Safire

Jhumpa Lahiri

David Letterman

Deepak Chopra

William Shakespeare

William Gillette

Ronald Reagan

Barack Obama

Philip Delves Boughton

Christopher M. Barlow

Paul Katz

Jon Stewart

Akira Kurosawa

Stephen Prince

Matt Zoller Seitz

Lucy Kellaway

Michael Baldwin

Garr Reynolds

Stephen M. Kosslyn

Hans Rosling

Deborah Landau

Stephen Sondheim

Paul Simon

Dizzy Gillespie

Houston Person

Dana Goodyear

W. Timothy Gallwey

Joel Stein

Taylor Mali

Matt Ridley

Irving Berlin

Tony Perrottet

Bruce Iliff

Rolf Dobelli

Frank Sinatra

John F. Kennedy

Jon Meacham

Johnny Carson

Dave Wiegand

Dorothy Rabinowitz

Adam Lashinsky

Frank Partnoy

Scott Adams

Bill Clinton

Kevin O’Connor

Paul Maritz

Adam Bryant

George Bernard Shaw

Peter Funt

Charlie Rose

Barbara Walters