she discusses her latest book, the new better off. first up here is astrophysicists [applause] thank you welcome to the american museum of natural history. i m your host for the evening and co-author of this book talk, i am neil degrasse tyson. i serve as the frederick t rowe s director of the hayden planetarium, a place we all went to as a kid. i was never the same after that. come back and actually become director. i also want to welcome c-span into this event, they are recording it for book tv, so c-span is in the house. [applause] tonight s book is called welcome to the university and i love saying that, welcome to the universe would go to planetarium director school they teach you how to speak like that. let me immediately and reduce my co-authors, first, michael strauss. [applause] and richard, the third, these are my two co-authors. [applause] so just a bit of introduction, i taught for ten years at princeton university from 1994 through 2003, before i transferred
in the constitution. what does that mean? guest: this is the so-called orth branch ofis government which annoys a combination of the other three branches and that s the heart of the constitutional problem. the original constitution count on the basis of the separation of powers probably the most important structural feature of the constitution and in the 20 century with developed the administrative apparatus of these agencies the environment a protection agency of the federan indications commission. most of this started and they combined legislative exec goods and judicial powers. madison called that the essence of tyranny. host: congress passes a law. the president signs it. what happens next. guest: the congress passes a law. congress doesn t pass laws. cn they don t legislate, they delegate.ob they allow these administrator s these people who nobody voted for who are not accounted for in congress tells them you write the rules committee make the laws but to give the
you re watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here s a look at what s on prime time tonight. we kick off the evening at 7:30 p.m. eastern with the son of the late author and journalist hunter s. thompson who remembers life with his father. then at 8:30 former state department official talks about the growing influence of china and india. michael peach, ceo of the publisher hachette book group, talks about his publishing career at 9:30 p.m. eastern. and at 10 on boob tv s after words booktv s after words program, mitch mcconnell discusses his memoir, the long game, with senator lamar alexander. we finish up our prime time programming at 11 with neil bass couple who recalls the nazis race to build a nuclear bomb and the allies efforts plan to destroy their nuclear facility in norway. that all happens tonight on c-span2 s booktv. and you re watching booktv on c-span2. whenever we get the opportunity, we like to go to college campuses and talk w
mortician. i would be glad to sign books if anyone has them. thank you very much. i appreciate it. [applause] the book signing will be out here. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] now joining us on book tv is melissa warren runs the show there. so he moved to downtown vegas and allocated a bunch he was sort of joining a momentum that was building to make a downtown sector for native las vegas that wouldn t focus as much on the tour toist industry that the strip focuses on but also the local population. writer s block was opened by myself and my husband scott. scott has more of the literary background than i do. he ran a hit area not-for-profit in new york, he was the co-founder and executive director of 826nyc which is part of a national network of not for-for profits not-for-profits. we were told that they were interested in opening something similar to 826nyc where they would offer literacy education for students in the area. vegas ranks between
read? look, i like anything that steven ambrose wrote. he was really a lot of range in in writing. very good, obviously, john john mccollough is an excellent historian. it have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether it s memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20 s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. i like to read richard nixon stuff. i like to read about richard nixon. fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. did your reading help you in your work as a congressman? it does. history in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but you re really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary h