the transportation authority. prior to joining the municipal authority. he served for the atlantic authority for 5 years. he started as a train conductor in the new york city transit system. let's give it up for director ford. jim dierck is a principle, but not only a principle and an educator. he is someone who designd and developed innovative concepts where there was an incident that involved safety. for the work he was recognized at the national principle of the year. and he is somebody who is on the ground and has worked to empower young people at his school. he took his school from a different circumstances to be one of the highest performs school districts in the state. jim dierck. margaret brodkin is the director of the department for children youth and families. i emphasize that because it is one of the most critical agencies in the city and county. margaret was a former director the colman advocates who is responsible for many of the children and families here in san francisco much he served as director. including the another and leader of a campaign that results in a children's fund to provides

professor here at george washington university and the author of this book, "sacred gifts, profane pleasures: a history of tobacco and chocolate in the atlantic world." thank you, professor. >> thank you. >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2's booktv. >> professor benjamin hopkins, what is the east india company? >> the british east india company was a semi-commercial company founded in the year 1600 by royal charter, by queen elizabeth, which gave it the exclusive right to trade with the indies. the english merchants. over time it transform into a kind of parasail juggernaut and behemoth that is extremely complex and difficult to understand. but the key thing about the east india company was that after the mid-18th century the east india company came to rule over much of the south asian subcontinent which included most of the modern-day bangladesh, india and pakistan. the east india company was rolled up in 1858, following a great new the of 1857 and 1858, and control of the south east asian subcontinent. >> how did it gives its charter? >> its charter was granted to merchants are petitioned the elizabethan

the subject of an investigation after his father received funds from a booster. in all at least ten major football programs have faced investigations or punishment in recent months. taylor branch is the author of the atlantic story which is on news stands now and will be released as he e-book later this week and he joins me now to talk about all this. thank you for being with us. first, help us to understand what you think the essential problem with big-time college sports is today. >> the essential problem is that we pretend that these adults are not entitled to a portion of the value that they earn. we pretend that the problem with all of these scandals is is that dirty athletes are getting money under the table. the problem we're not honest about it. nowhere else in america do we forbid adults from seeking a portion of the highly valued services that they provide. and nowhere else would we think of saying don't pay these people until i'm satisfied that it won't mess something up. >> as the ncaa president said they're getting an education, some to schools they may never have had access to. isn't that payment enough. >> they're generating billions of dollars on top of those scholarships. we are saying tha

the deep reading that used to come so naturally is now a struggle. i didn't write that, but i could have. nicholas carr, the author of an article in the atlantic a few years ago called is google making me stupid, later the basis of a book on this cultural remapping, given the fact he wrote a book, it's believable to know the struggle is worth it. the fact that whereas i used to go into my brain to remember facts, i now google to find them. anyhow, as it happens, i've been to a number of funerals in the last few months. funerals, don't feel sorry for me because funerals can be great celebrations of one's life if it was well lived, and it's probably no news to you that frequently sermons and eulogies are borrowed from writers who have gone before. the most recent was a national review funeral, bill buckley's research director died. i can't begin to relay the beautiful send off it was after a long struggle with cancer, so i won't, but she, who appreciated and helped craft good writing if you go back in national review, there's so much good writing there besides the ideas. she would have loved that during courses of his brother who happens to be a

the student athletes or system? taylor branch is a pulitzer prize winning author, one of the great historians we read and you are tackling in the new edition of "the atlanticshame of college sports and you said you sort of -- i don't want to say stumbled upon the issue this wasn't your intention to dive into it and you dove into it, why? >> i did it as a lark between books and it was a much bigger subject than i thought. i was passing college sports fan growing up. you see all of these scandals, say you got to get to the bottom of it and the more i -- there are many, many colorful stories, i got to go to the alabama/auburn game last year, but the problem is, that we're not asking the right question. the right question is, how do we justify depriving college athletes of the money that they -- >> i was just going to say, the thesis seems to be it's right here on page 82, i would say down here, when you say the tragedy at the heart of college sports is not that some college athletes are getting paid, but that more of them are not. that we have designed a system where -- and you were very careful said i don't want to use plantation analogies and things like th

canada did an incredible job with the aviation authority and of the minister in an sec over cell phones and communicate to a number of people to pilots over the atlantic>> 1700 kiloliters east the air traffic controllers at the canada's area control center where about to have the busiest day of their career. >> when i arrived at work the westbound flow coming from europe was just starting to hit the coverage in eastern canada, and the air space in the united states has been closed and these aircraft or a device they would have to live and as soon as possible, so a lot of them. >> canada's controllers are responsible for directing all air traffic in the western half of the atlantic airspace. the busiest air corridor in the world. on a 9/11 like any other day there were hundreds of planes approaching newfoundland on route to canadian and u.s. destinations. >> some had enough fuel to go back to europe and those are beyond the point of return and decided they were going to land in canada. is back this recorded on 9/11 redials the tracks of the aircraft on the approach to north america. the trees is marked in yellow are landing at the gander international