Professor and keith richards. [laughter] ill use his voice. [laughter] and they go to fewport, rhode island newport, rhode island, in the blazing august of 1790 and famously, they have a wonderful visit and a great letter has been written to them by the leader of the synagogue there which is really a beautiful place if youve never been there, jewish or not jewish. Present this kind of rhetorical new skate they would live in an empire of laws and so on. Its very, very touching and the famous phrase of persecution sanction, to bigotry no assistance were it not the other way around. We have now a country where every man can let beneath his vine and fig from the bible. Washington writes back this wonderful use of political recycling, deeply america where washington says its a wonderful truth and knowledge of any country to which persecution gives no sanction in bigotry, no assistance as if hes just up. Its the first president ial, but not the last preachers are. Jefferson did though, this
Similar types of trees, live oaks, long leaf pines, palm trees, sandy soil, salt in the air. The gulf of mexico, of course, nourishes and supplies us with wonderful seafood. Estuaries and rivers and places like mobile bay are wonderfully rich in tradition and culture. And there have been books and memoirs and so forth sort of in and around all these things for hundreds of years. So its an extraordinarily rich subject to take. And then, of course, along comes the oil spill in 2010 where all of a sudden we are at center stage, and people are beginning to look at the gulf coast and think about, wow, whats it like there, what moved this them or we didnt know we got so much of our oil and gas from there, good lord. And so the nation really became kind of tuned in to how important the gulf is. Learn about the rich history and literary life of mobile, alabama, on booktv and American History tv today at 5 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan2 and sunday at 2 on cspan3. Coming up next, Wake Forest Univers
The civil war in 1850 unlearned the whole business of growing tobacco from his father. And his father also is entrepreneurial and pretty sure it recognized its great to grow tobacco, but it may be even better to sell the tobacco himself into process that it, too manufactured. He took a tobacco accreted on his own plantation in manufacturing any other slaves and sons figure out how to turn the tobacco plant into chewing tobacco. He was selling chewing tobacco before the civil war and after the civil war and during the period of reconstruction he had a sense continue earning his business. So his father was very entrepreneurial, figured out you are losing money in the tobacco trade over the course of the middle of the 19th century in the end of the civil war and beginning of reconstruction and taught his sons how to do the business. His sons, particularly r. J. Reynolds relies the price for transplantation was away from marketing possibilities. If you saw this tobacco come you couldnt do
Heres a look at our prime time lineup. Coming up at 7 p. M. Eastern, Michelle Gillespie discusses her dual biology. Then at 7 45, max brooks recounts the first africanamerican regiment to fight in world war i known as the harlem hell fighters. At 8 45, michael malice looks at the life and continued influence of kim jungil. At 10 p. M. On after words, Patrick Tucker discusses how large streams of data are changing how we think about the future. And we conclude our prime time programming at 11 eastern with richard vigueri and his examination of the size of the federal government. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Jared orsi is next on booktv. He recounts the life of zebulon pike. This is about an hour, 15 minutes. Thank you all for coming out. So im going to talk, as jen mentioned, about a book that ive recently published on zebulon pike, came out month before last in january, and i have some slides for you. Most of them are images that i took, and i did the best i could to try
Dangerous for somebody to grab your work now or before so many digital applications . I dont think, you know, theres i dont really think theres a danger in sending manuscript to an agent. You know, that is, no incentive for the agent to steal. Theres also, you know, its an easy problem to remedy and somebody who would steal in a circumstance like that would absolutely just be in bad faith. They deserve all those copyright penalties we can, you know, bring down on them. I think, you know, and you really dont see people bringing claims about, you know, forwarding emails and things like that. Its just the notion that weve got to set a we have got a set of rules that we violate every single day of our lives, and that just doesnt make sense because threat is out there. You know, the chances that somebody would complain about an image in a presentation at a book, you know, Literary Festival are small. Finish but the consequences are dire. Litigations expensive. And why, you know, why have th