coulding out. >> frances beinecke co-authored "clean energy common sense" with bob deans and to find out more, visit nrdc.org. >> we're here with garrett peck, the author of "the prohibition hangover," what was the pro hijack and when did it take place? >> prohibition was a constitutional amendment that took place in 1920 and lasted almost 14 years, until 1933. the country realized that prohibition didn't work out too well, because we banned the manufacturer's sale and transportation of alcohol, which of course, engendered a tremendous amount of law breaking and then once the great depression took place, the country realized, you know what, this is becoming such a big law and order issue and we need the jobs back, so we ended up repealing prohibition. >> can you talk a little bit about how we got to prohibition iand the lit example infighting that led to this system amendment. >> there was a century long reform movement, called the temperance movement, which was designed to get our countrymen who not just sober up, but to abstain altogether and they used the excuse of world war i to

she co-authored "clean energy commonsense" with bob deans. and to find out more, visit nrdc.org. >> i'm here with vali nasr professor of international studies at tufts university and author of a new book "forces of fortune." who are the new muslim middle class? >> well, it's people who's livelihoods are connected to the private sector, it's integrated in the world economy, they're businessmen, their financiers and they're also professionals but they are people who are like middle classes in asia, latin america, people we identify as part of the new globalization forces, new economic forces. and we often don't see them in the middle class. we always think about extremists or authoritarian government or fundamentalists. we don't think about social classes in the muslim world the way in which they connect to economics and why do they matter in terms of all the things that we think about the muslim world. >> you focus on iran in this book. how diversion are the social classes in iran? >> well, again when we think about iran we don't realize that