[laughter] ben mezrich questions the ethics and morality of brilliant people. his account of mark zuckerberg and the creation of facebook was adapted for the screen as "the social network." "bringing down the house" followed a group of mit students who won millions in las vegas, and his latest, "sex on the moon," tracks a possible nasa astronaut candidate as he steals moon rocks. call, e-mail or tweet ben mezrich sunday, november 6th, at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> we have this book called "the deal from hell." um, what's it about, basically, and why should we care, especially why should people watching us far away in bang gore, maine, portland, maine, utica, new york, why should they care? >> this book talks a lot about the differences between journalism today and journalism when i started. when i got into the journalism,

so, please, welcome to that's and welcome to the stage ben mezrich. [applause] [background sounds] >> so am i wrong that when i heard that the title of the book was "sex on the moon," i thought that was a drink that the college kids have in south padre? [laughter] >> it does sound like a drink. my wife actually came up with the title, so i was not the dirty mind. the main character spread rocks on a bed and had sex with his girlfriend on the moon. i'm afraid it's getting caught in spam filters. [laughter] >> whenever the e-mails go out. >> i know, yeah. >> as i was reading it, i kept thinking, you know, sort of processing the title and where did it come from, and as you say, you get to a moment later in the book where it becomes evident -- >> right. >> very quick, i'm guessing many people have not had the chance to read it, so this is one of those delicate things -- >> right. i tend to give away too much. >> let's just say, tell us about thad and what he is and what he does. >> sure. >> you said he is the most complex individual you have written about

call, e-mail or tweet ben mezrich live on "in depth" sunday, november 6th at noon eastern on c-span2. >> next on booktv, jay feldman reports on the curtailment of civil liberties on minorities during times of war and strife. the deportation of mexican immigrants and mexican-americans throughout the depression to the placement of 112 thousand japanese americans in interment camps during world war ii. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you, and thank you all for turning out tonight. [background sounds] [laughter] an auspicious beginning. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> i'll wing the first, first segment. manufacturing hysteria is the story of, t about how the government scapegoats minorities in times of crisis. [laughter] and uses the hysteria that's generated by that scapegoating to clamp down on civil liberties, surveil citizens and suppress dissent. the pattern we'll see repeated over and over again from the first world war forward. the periods we'll talk about are world war i, the red scare immediately following world war i, the deportation and volunta

[laughter] >> in his nonfiction ben mezrich talks about the ethics, and morality of brilliant people. his account of mark zuckerberg and the creation of facebook was adapted for the screen as the social network, bringing down the house followed a group of mit students who won millions in and as a astronaut steals moon rocks. now it's your time to ask the questions. ben mezrich sunday november 6th noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> and now an interview from george mason university. >> george mason professor rosemarie zagarri, in your book "politics of size," you begin the book by saying that the deepest and most antagonistic conflict at the federal constitutional convention was the controversy over representation in the national legislature. why is that? >> well, i think that a lot of people think about the constitutional convention and they think that slavery was the major issue that tore the delegates apart and, of course, slavery was a major issue and it was very contentious. but the fact was that it was only the debate over how people would be represented in the upper and lower

[laughter] >> in his nonfiction ben mezrich questions the motivation ethics and morality of brilliant people. his account of mark zuckerberg integration of facebook was adapted for the screen as the social network, bringing down the house followed a group of m.i.t. students who won millions in las vegas and his latest, sex on the moon tracks a possible mr. not candid as he steals a safe filled with mud and rocks. now does your chance to ask the questions. call e-mailer tweet ben mezrich live on in depth sunday november 6 at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2.

call, email or tweet ben mezrich on booktv on c-span2. .. with the associated press energy writer, dina cappiello. >> host: welcome, mr. yergin, to "after words" and thanks for doing this. first of all, let me congratulate you on what is quite an achievement, this book of yours, "the quest." the first thing i wanted to ask you is what prompted this book. obviously you had your pulitzer prize-winning book, "the prize," about the history of oil. so why is this, why now, especially when one of your primary conclusions is that for a while things aren't really going to change much when it comes to energy. >> guest: i think there is a couple of reasons. one come is while the trends aren't going to change a lot has changed in the world. the soviet union collapsed, china was hardly toward the prize. the only country that gets two chapters in the book right up to what happened this year with the fukushima nuclear accident and the arabs bring. so much happened and the other thing is what i wanted to do it this is more ambitious in the price that's wha