here s 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 african-american 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 jung-il. 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 c-span2 s 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 i m going to talk, as jen mentioned, about a book that i ve 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
dangerous for somebody to grab your work now or before so many digital applications? i don t think, you know, there s i don t really think there s a danger in sending manuscript to an agent. you know, that is, no incentive for the agent to steal. there s also, you know, it s 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 don t see people bringing claims about, you know, forwarding e-mails and things like that. it s just the notion that we ve got to set a we have got a set of rules that we violate every single day of our lives, and that just doesn t 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. litigation s expensive. and
about 40 minutes. michelle gillespie who was r.j. reynolds? he was selling chewing tobacco and became the best manufacturer in the country. how did he become that? because he was the second assignment ousonof 16 children o planter before the civil war who owned over 50 slaves, the largest in patrick county virginia. his father lived in virginia and so r.j. reynolds was born in 1850 and learned the whole business of growing tobacco from his father, and his father was also entrepreneurial and pretty shrewd and recognized it is great to grow tobacco but it might be even better to sell it himself and to process it and manufacture it and so he took that and he created on his own plantation in manufacturing and he had a slave and his sons figure out how to turn the tobacco plant into chewing tobacco and so he was selling chewing tobacco before the civil war. and after the civil war and during the period of reconstruction he had his sons continue learning the business. so hi
professor and keith richards. [laughter] i ll 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 you ve 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. it s 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 it s a wonderful truth and knowledge of any country to which persecution gives no sanction in bigotry, no assistance as if he s just up. it s the first presidential, but not the last preachers are. jeffers
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 co