Election day, very pleased to have a copy here to you. This is the american and they chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intellige
Election day, very pleased to have a copy here to you. This is the american and they chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intellige
Chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intelligence operations and of course, to topography is the essence of war fighting over borde
Chose to have a different subtitle, the book the book at war. Its called how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading. And that, in a nutshell, describes what im trying do in this book. If we think about books at war at all, its probably in this context. But books as victims. Victims of bombing victims, of theft, looting and that is part of the story. And its the story we told in our history of libraries when we had a chapter in that book called surviving the 20th century about how books were not about but i to point want to make to you today is that books were not just victims of war but active agents of war books were essential for waging of war as macleish that in the director of the of congress made the point modern war. He said cannot be fought without most complete Library Resources of books played an part in scientific and essential war making. It played an important part in intelligence operations and of course, to topography is the essence of war fighting over borde
Staff testified about the ssi disability program. And the process for filing disability claims. Sam johnson chairs the ways and means subcommittee on Social Security. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning to all of you. And welcome to todays hearing. On the challenges Social Security faces when deciding if a person should receive disability benefits. Since i have been chairman, we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future Social Security benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or dies. These benefits are an important part of a familys financial security. And americans rightfully expect that when they apply for benefits, if they are eligible, that they will receive them quickly. But for those