done. >> time for about one more question. [inaudible] >> thank you for your patience. >> thank you for being here. also delighted to having you. i want to ask you what you're doing now. >> so, i started a company called frontier resource group and we are a privately equity fund. we invest in energy, mining, agriculture and opportunities throughout africa. taking it not about to operate on a firm fixed budget, to make it work. basic commodities the again basic minerals, oil and gas and the kind of logistics for after the were excited about after. iagain into the bread basket of the world. there's enormous amount of economics and advocate is waking up to opportunities, and we are on the leading edge of trying to make it happen out there on the frontier spirit going to bring

indeed to close out a program that please, join me in thanking erik prince. [applause] >> thank you, erik, and thank you, tracy, for a terrific job. ladies and gentlemen, if would like to have your book signed our personalized i ask you get someone to set up the stage, and then in an orderly finish is you would line up in this aisle and we will get the book signed. you come up on stage and then you exit out the door. so thank you very much. [inaudible conversations]

>> is there a nonfiction author a book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org, or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> i'm standing in front of the 1905, the world's first practical airplane. this was the third and final expendable airplane the wright brothers built. and today survives as the second oldest of the airplane today. this airplane which will right considered the world's first practical airplane was constructed and flown in less than six years of time between the time that they built their tight and the success of this particular airplane. this is also plan that was billed as than two years after the first flight at kitty hawk north u-lite on december 17, 1903. what's interesting is they flew

four times, just four times on one very historic day. very, very for important flights and they very much were the proof of concept of power heavier than air flight. so the and play behind the, the 1905, was capable of repeated takeoffs and landings, repeated flights of not just for a few seconds at a time but upwards of 40 minutes by october 1905. this airplane could fly circles, figure eights. e-bank and turned and fled very much like a modern airplane flies. this is very much a modern airplane capable of being controlled through three independent actions of flight, pitch, roll and y'all. >> there is more from wright brothers aviation center next weekend as a booktv and american history tv look at the history and literary lives of dayton, ohio. on c-span2 and three.

>> now on booktv we want to introduce you to simeon booker. what is your professional background? >> well, i've been a recorder for over a half century starting with -- [inaudible] i had in author who went to harvard, karl murphy, the for an american newspaper. and he always wanted me to be a journalist. so i followed in his sights. when i finished college, i joined the afro in baltimore, started my career spent what year was that? >> oh, boy, that was 1942.

i finished college and joined the afro. i stayed there a use few years, and then went on. then i won a nieman fellowship. that was in -- can't get the years right. after the nieman fellowship, i took a break from the newspapers and decided that i would join the "washington post." >> mr. baca, your new book, "shocking the conscience," what are you covering in this book?

>> my life. i started off with. [inaudible] i started getting headlines when i covered the murder of emmett till, and -- [inaudible] and they covered it and made it worldwide. >> where did you come up with a title, "shocking the conscience"? >> well, i really didn't come up with the title. my wife decided after that long period to write about it. she helped me go over the notes,

the material i saved, and we developed the block. there's been a lot of different pages of improvement that nobody covered spent as an african-american reporter in the '40s, '50s, '60s, what was that like? >> roff. i first realized when i joined the "washington post," not only did i have problems with them, but outside. [inaudible] >> why do you say that? >> because we still have problems of race in america. it's still not -- move around

easily. and i've always been a pioneer in race relations. i was probably one of the first to marry a white woman, and that's a story itself. divide between both races. it's been very enlightening to me to be able to do this and have respect for all people. >> the book is called "shocking the conscience." the author, simeon booker. here's the cover. this is a booktv on c-span2. >> the other thing that we could do to test whether roosevelt made a difference or not is the way history turnout is use my counterfactual history test.

suppose a plausible alternative is present or not wendell willkie who was a moderate republican internationalist to rant against roosevelt in 1940, but suppose republicans had nominated charles lindbergh, who was a great aviation hero, he was very isolationist, and quite sympathetic to germany. if he had a president lindbergh instead of a president roosevelt, i think history would've turned out quite differently. i doubt that he would've made the preparations that roosevelt made, and i doubt that after japan attacked the united states that he would have oriented toward toward europe rather than keeping it focused just on asia. so in that sense, franklin roosevelt made a big difference. >> foreign policy and 20th century presidential leadership,

later today at 7:30 p.m. eastern. part of american history tv. this weekend on c-span3. >> elizabeth bradley and lauren taylor are next on booktv. the two authors question why compare to all other industrialized nations americans spend more and receive less from our health care system. this is about one hour and 10 minutes. >> hi, everybody, and welcome. so, welcome to the special event hosted by the institution for social and policy studies new health care center. we are here to have a conversation about elizabeth bradley and volunteers asked what her new book, "the american health care paradox." there's no shortage of health care in the news right now. we've got democrats furiously defending the affordable care act. we would allrg