after that sonya shaw on pandemic, tracking contagion from cholera to e e bola and beyond. >> and 2016 books on science and technology at 8 p.m. on book tv here on c-span 2. book tv is on twitter and facebook. and we want to hear from you. tweet us, twitter.com/book tv or post a comment on our facebook page. >> your book is the voting rights war naacp and ongoing struggle for justice. which supreme court ruling do you think had the most significant impact on the ability of african-americans to vote? >> i think the very first one, wynn versus united states who struck down the grandfather clause and the reason why is because the grandfather clause was something on its face basically said if your grandfather couldn't vote, you couldn't vote. however, it was the very first voting rights case brought by the naacp before the u.s. supreme court and it was their first victory and spurred them on to realize that the right to vote should be up there with criminal justice issues and economic issues and housing and the very first case so you see that the n achlt achlt krchaacpt 1915 case and to th

after that, sonya shaw on pandemic, tracking contagions from cholera to ebola and beyond. and followed by time travel, a history. and kathy o'neill on methods of mass destruction, how big data threatens democracy. 2016 books on science and technology at 8 p.m. eastern on book tv here on c-span 2. book tv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. tweet us, twitter.com/book tv or comment on our facebook page. facebook do facebook.com/book tv. >> we want to introduce you to paul moreno, the author of this book, the bureaucrat kings, the origins and underpinnings of america's bureaucratic state. professor moreno on page one, the united states is ruled by an establishment nowhere mentioned in the constitution. what does that men? >> this is the so-called fourth branch of government which in a way is a combination of the other three branches, that's the heart of the constitutional problem. the original constitution was meant to be founded on the basis of separation of powers, probably the most important structural feature of the constitution. in the 20th century w

after that sonya shaw on pandemic, tracking contagion from cholera to e e bola and beyond. >> and 2016 books on science and technology at 8 p.m. on book tv here on c-span 2. book tv is on twitter and facebook. and we want to hear from you. tweet us, twitter.com/book tv or post a comment on our facebook page. >> your