To a judge, judge neil and he said i like you to sign a book for a friend of mine and i said oh great, who is the friend . And he started spilling the name, ba are a, it was president obama. And i signed a book for him and i like to tell you what i signed. I said to president obama, we are all proud of your presidency and i know that Thurgood Marshall would be proud to, sincerely yours will haygood. So thank you. Yg that will bring our three hours to a close. Will haygood, haygood, in the context of Miami University thank you for your time a book to me. Thank you very much, its, its been an honor to be here. Every weekend, but tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and author on cspan too. Heres whats coming up on saturday at 915 eastern. Fox news channel, the five cohost eric boling looks at the values and virtues that help build america as a virtues that help build america as a great nation in his book, wake up america. The ninth virtues that made our nation great in my we need the more
On book tvs afterwards, Science Writer Nathalia Holt chronicles the lives of an elite group of people who worked at the jet Propulsion Laboratorys in the 40s and 50s. She talks about her book, rise of the rocket girls with lisa grande of the system is sony and national air and space museum. Host thank you very much Nathalia Holt for being here with me to talk about your research and your new book about the socalled rocket girls of the jet Propulsion Laboratory before thank you for having me. Host i would like to begin by asking you how you discovered this group of women and how you decided to write about this largely forgotten pieceof American History . Guest its a strange coincidence. I came across this story circa 2010 and my husband and i were expecting our first baby and we were having a really difficult time coming up with names. Finally my husband suggested Eleanor Francis and i wasnt sure until i did what parents do these days and i googled the name and what popped up was a woma
doing the calculations and the computations necessary for the data to form a pattern and tell us about the university fell entirely to women. women computers. it didn t b start that way. professor pickering had a young harvard man doing that work for him, computing. but professor pickering was so frustrated with the quality of the young man s work, he once said his maid could do a better job. and so professor pickering fired the harvard man and replaced him with his maid. wilamina fleming who did a better job, even without the benefit of a college education. she actually turned out to be so good that she was eventually appointed curator of astronomical photos, photos
machines, they were women. those women made records of the data observed by professor pickering and some astroners, all men, who did the manly work of gasing at the stars and photographing thenl through har ward s powerful telescope. doing the calculations and the computations necessary for the data to form a pattern and tell us about the university fell entirely to women. women computers. it didn t b start that way. professor pickering had a young harvard man doing that work for him, computing. but professor pickering was so frustrated with the quality of the young man s work, he once said his maid could do a better job. and so professor pickering fired