. >> and now i from the 2014 conservative political action conference, david harsanyi. he says it'sgjÑ allow people to make the decisions inr own communities rather than having someone from far be away be able to decide because of a good campaign how your health . i think we need some type of democracy to elect people to run things. what i don't think we need to do is have democracy decide what marriage looks like, what health care looks like, you know, what our communities look like. i think you have to localize that. and there is no perfect system. i think we do have the structure of the best system available, we're just not -- i think we're getting away from what makes that system great. >> host: and how would we do that? how would we accomplish that? >> guest: well, you want to allow states to make their own decisions. you don't have sort of human projects like obamacare and other things. and i'm not just pointing the ficker at democrats -- finger at democrats. i think republicans with no child left behind and other programs undermined local control of education and

david harsanyi is also the author of the nanny state. thank you for your time. >> anytime. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs that you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar in the upper left side of the page and click on search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. the tv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors.

david harsanyi is also the author of the nanny state. thank you for your time. >> anytime. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs that you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar in the upper left side of the page and click on search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. the tv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> doug most recounts the competition between boston and new york city, to build the nations first subway system during the late 19th century. this is a little under one hour. [applause] >> thank you. thank you everyone for coming out on this lovely night. i've done one of than earlier so far and the also was a slushy and lovely night. so maybe this is what you should expect going forward for things. it is also appropriate as i talk to people about this today, as i was thinking about this now, it's appropriate that their snow around because as

spoken and they are wrong," nationally-syndicated columnist and senior editor of federalist, david harsanyi. in "busted," philadelphia daily news reporters wendy ruderman and barbara laker recount the operations of a rogue narcotics squad in philadelphia. paul marks provides a personal account of cancer research and reports on his growing optimism for finding a cure in "on the cancer frontier: one man, one disease and a medical revolution." in "degrees of inequality: how the politics of higher education sabotage the american dream," suzanne meddler, professor of american institutions at cornell university, examines the decline in college graduates from low to middle income families. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future booktv and on booktv.org. >> up next, author and professor peniel joseph. the black power movement expert talks about the rewriting of postwar black history, misconceptions about the civil rights movement and the obama era's place in race relations. editor of five nonfiction books including "waiting til the midnight

. >> and now i from the 2014 conservative political action conference, david harsanyi. he says it'sgjÑ