if i can just get up to that sort of and be through with that than i could read the midcentury session. so i felt like my reading was motivated by this desire to have this body of knowledge. there was information you needed to know in order to sort of be a person in this world, to sort of be suspiciously ignorant. >> do you have still a list of books, a list of unread books that you feel you must ingest in order to -- >> it's like a palette of bookshelves and several of this size in my house that are not read. they are not organized at all. people are like you have an assistant, how do you do that and have those rules, but i am not nearly as organized. >> talking with someone today about. it seemed it was important to be surrounded by books in addition to those that you have read and loved. in my house i've probably read maybe 75% of the books i broug brought. and then in my bedroom i have to bookshelves that are completely unread. that is how they come into the house. the rate at which i buy the books hasn't slowed. >> i like being surrounded by the possibility. and you think in my ow

marriage, her children, her mother and anxiety that placed her at the center of literary and domestic midcentury america and in this extraordinary biography she made this piece that jackson should be considered as an underappreciated feminist hero and the important writer. groth franklin. [applause] >> i am to use superstitious direction have prepared be very anything so this will be very short so thanks for offering maya book in this way i am sold pleased and thrilled that shirley jackson is getting this recognition also thanks to my agent who has been my steadiest and most enthusiastic champion the best champion a writer could want. have been so lucky to have u.s. maya supporters almost from the very beginning ofe my career and i am so grateful to you both to the extraordinary time -- team and mine a publicist and everyone who did such a at a beautiful job to design the book in print it out to. rethink biography is written by many hands and they're so many people whose words i relied upon writing this book from the people that were so generous to give me their time to those never got to meet t

look at sub-saharan africa, home to more than a billion people and expected to double in size by midcentury. african governments face the threats of coupes, popular uprisings, widespread violence and terrorist attacks, including from al qaeda and its isis affiliates. in the western hemisphere, venezuela's unpopular, autocratic government will turn to increasingly repressive means to contain political opponents and street unrest. oil has long been the regime's cash cow, but mismanagement has led to declining output in revenue. we assess the venezuelan government will struggle to contain inflation, make debt payments, and pay for imports of scarce basic goods and medicines. mexico's government will focus on domestic priorities to prepare for the 2018 presidential election while seeking to limit fallout from strained relations with the united states. public demand for government action against crime and corruption will add to political pressure. as cuba heads into the final year of preparations for a historic transition to a next-generation leader in early 2018, the government's focus will be

it is in fact a awards of economic security seems to -- across the midcentury decades the social security number would be a badge of inclusion and expanding welfare state, even a mark of economic citizenship and the longing. it is hard to fathom now there -- was asting market flourishing market. there was jewelry people had embedded with individual numbers. and somewhat further than this, per -- permanently inking in what newspapers heralded as a boon for the tattoo industry. that ended soon after world war ii. although not immediately, interestingly. had thatcurity members specific numbers were broadcast in radio contacts, using advertisements and printed without much noted in the newspaper. both because of the numbers of -- and host to private agencies and the rise of the computer age, a reversal was at hand. social security numbers were recognized as the linchpin of a vast network of databanks that house personal information of nearly every single adult in the united states. their debut social security numbers erupted as a political issue, prompted the creation of a federal task horse,

american history it was an interesting project, and i will talk about it later, the sense of american midcentury that they would have the audacity to conduct such a study . i'm not sure that the institutional -- institutional system decided that they would launch something like that, but kennedy was assigned to do it, did a really good job, has a wonderful narrative about what it means to be an excellent senator. so i read that, was thinking about that in the context of senator hoover's career and this file has his back story of just how this committee actually worked. and to no one's surprise, and certainly not senator hoover's was a fair amount of political machinations even to determine the five best centers in american history. i went on vacation. about the second day of vacation she went out. i was sitting by the eastern shore of maryland, by the chesapeake thinking, i wonder if it might be possible to register kind of a simple, narrow book on the kennedy committee showing just how kennedy was in charge of this project, why the start of a project like this was interesting, the back story, t

look at sub-saharan africa, home to more than one billion people and expected to double in size by midcentury. african governments face the threat of coups, uprisings, widespread violence, and terrorist attacks, including from al qaeda and its isis affiliates. in the western hemisphere, venezuela's popular autocratic government will turn to increasingly oppressive means to maintain political opponents and street unrest. oil has been the cash cow, but mismanagement has led to the declining output and revenue. we assess that the venezuelan government will struggle to contain inflation, make payments, and pay for imports. goods and medicines. mexico's government will focus on domestic priorities to prepare for the 2018 presidential election while seeking to limit the fallout of strained relations with the united states. public demand for government action against crime and corruption will add to political pressure. as cuba heads into the final year of preparations for a historic transition into a next-generation leader in early 2018, the government's focus will be on preserving control while man

look at sub-saharan africa, home to more than one billion people and expected to double in size by midcentury. governments face the threat of coups, uprisings, widespread terrorist attacks from okada and its isis affiliates. in the western hemisphere, venezuela's popular autocratic government will turn to increasingly oppressive means to maintain unrest. oil has been the cash cow, but mismanagement has led to the climbing output and revenue. we assess that the government will struggle to contain inflation, make payments, and pay for imports. mexico's government will focus on domestic priorities to prepare for the 2018 presidential election while seeking to limit the fallout of strained relations with the united states. public demand for government action will add to political pressure. as cuba heads into the final year of preparations for a historic transition into a earlyeneration leader in 2000 18, the government's focus will be on preserving control while managing recession. cuba, which continues to use strained democracy activism blames the slowing economy on lower commodity prices. the u