Of course, i read emma, she was one of the richest lives. The book is so good that in spite the fact that it weighs a lot, i carry with me everywhere and i risk losing it. You consider yourself an anarchist . Caller no, i consider myself an investigator of all possibilities politically. And i have come down to believe a great deal in resisting the state power for the governments power. Over many different aspects of our lives, i think that we are practically the stupidest brainwashed country that has ever existed. Except for third world countries that never had any education. That is tracy in hoboken, new jersey for thank you lets hear from judy and Boynton Beach florida. Caller hello it is great to speak with you. I love the program. I guess that answers the question, where is waldo . Sorry about that judy. Please go ahead. I am reading rising star, of barack obama and i am really enjoying all of the details. I had not read any obama reviews or memoirs before this and it is really get
Actually, ive written a lot about race and media and also have, i interviewed taraji p. Henson for the smithsonian, so weve got a little bit many common here. [applause] so our esteemed guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist and english professor . Yes. Virginia native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job. Wow. Out of high school. And also had a magazine for expats in mexico. Inside mexico . Yeah. Started working on Hidden Figures in 2010. Wow. And became a New York Times number one best seller, spawned a movie that was oscarnominated. Margot lee shetterly, everyone. [cheers and applause] so i heard that you gave an amazing speech last night where you talked a little bit about charlottesville and race. Could you give us just a little taste of what you talked about there and how it compares to what you talk about in the book. Yeah. You know, the thing that we talked a little bit about what i started out doing, which was working in Investment Banking out of school.
Professors talk and recently we did an interview with desousa. Now we have casey, why are you not hear the professor . Caller well, i need assistance and im physically disabled so i was unable to get connected with someone. But i am watching. We are glad you are watching. Caller i am reading two books for the second time and i am enjoying them all over again. The book of the books are young adult selections. The first book is called the hate you give randy thomas. The second one is called. [inaudible] because i am a middle school librarian, im really enjoying this book because they both have themes of social justice and they really have the child is africanamericans preteens and teenagers are facing today. My hope is to be able to read is with my students during the school year. When you give advice to middle School Students on what or how to read, what is the number one thing that you tell them . Well, i have a readers advisory as a librarian first start off with what are you interest
Project that youre work on. This is something you have continued past the life of the book. Could you talk a little bit about what youre doing there and how its succeeded since the book and the movie have come out . So. Yeah so, yeah, the human computer project. Essentially, what i was so surprised to discover doing the research for Hidden Figures is how many women were involved in computing, as i talked about before. Not just at nasa, but at all of these other organizations. And so this is really a way to try and catalog all of the women who were involved in doing this work in the early days of computing and really understand, you know, what kind of work they were doing and also to get a snapshot of women in these fields and see if theres something that we might learn from those early pioneers that we can apply to women working in these fields today. So if people want to participate, they can find it onlinesome. Yep. The humancomputerproject. Com, or you can reach out to me at margo l
You been also follow us on social media as we do behind the scenes videos and pictures from here at the Convention Center as well as posting schedule information. booktv is our twitter handle. If youre on twitter, give us a follow. Were also on facebook and instagram as well. That is some of the things that are going on here. Ra lets hear from you now. W. What are you reading . Tracy in hoboken, new jersey, youre first up, good morning to you. Caller good morning. A pleasure to be on this show. I love this show. Im reading a book called, red. Speeches. The selected writings and speeches by emma goldman, compiled and edited by alice kate schulman. Emma goldman was an anarchist, with possibly one of the richest live as woman has ever led. The book is so good that in spite of the fact it weigh as lot, i carry it with me everywhere and risk losing it. Tracy, do you consider yourself an anarchist . Caller no, im consider a myself investigator of all possibilities politically. I have come un