CSPAN2 Book TV April 26, 2014
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 hims...
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