. >> michelle gillespie, who is r.j. reynolds? >> r.j. reynolds assayed original tobacco manufacturing united states in the late 19th century he was selling chewing tobacco and he became the best manufacturer chewing tobacco in the entire country. >> host: how did he become that? >> is the second timeout of 16 children of a tobacco planter before the civil war who owned over 50 slaves. the largest slaveholder and patrick county, virginia. and so r.j. reynolds grew up in 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

. >> 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 his father was very entrepreneurial and figured out that you were losi

. >> michelle gillespie, who is r.j. reynolds? >> r.j. reynolds assayed original tobacco manufacturing united states in the late 19th century he was selling chewing tobacco and he became the best manufacturer chewing tobacco in the entire country. >> host: how did he become that? >> is the second timeout of 16 children of a tobacco planter before the civil war who owned over 50 slaves. the largest slaveholder and patrick county, virginia.

coming up at 7 eastern, michelle gillespie discusses her biography of r.j. reynolds, founder of the tobacco company, and his wife katherine. then at 7:45 eastern, max brooks recounts the first african-american regiment to fight in world war i, the 369th known as the harlem hell fighters. at 8:45 p.m. eastern, michael malice looks at the continued influence of the late korean leader, kim jung-il. at 10 p.m. on "after words," patrick tucker studies how technology is changing the future. and we conclude at 11 ian with richard vigueri and his examination of the split in the republican party over the size of the federal government. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> booktv of covers hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we'llattending this week. look for these -- we'll be attending this week. look for these programs in the near future on booktv on c-span2. on tuesday we're in princeton, new jersey, for the recount of w.e.b. dubois' time as a student at the university of berlin. he'll sp

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 the best i could to try and get to the spot where pike was on the same day of the year. there's one where i cheated, and i h