. >> 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 change the constitution. we declared war on germany in 1917 and of course the brewers at that time that germans, so what whol

. >> we're here with garrett peck, the author of "the prohibition hangover: alcohol in america frm demon rum to cult cabernet." what was the prohibition and when did it take place because the prohibition was a constitutional amendment that took place, that took effect in 19 and lasted almost 14 years until 1933. the country realized that prohibition didn't work out too well because we had banned the manufacture sale and transportation of alcohol, which of course generator hms amount of lawbreaking and ended up once the great depression to place the country realized, you know what, this has become such a big issue and we need the jobs back. so we ended up repeating prohibition. >> can you talk about how we got to prohibition in the political and defined that led to this constitutional amendments because there was a century long social reform movement called the temperance movement which was designed to get our country, not just sober up a stay altogether. they use the excuse of world war i to change the constitution. of course, the brewers at the time were germans. so that whole lobby was

. >> author is garrett peck, the book is the prohibition hangover. thanks. >> thank you. thanks for having me here today. >> the producer and directer of the documentary, kabul 24, talk about the capture and detention of 24 aid workers from shelter now international in afghanistan just prior to 9/11. henry arnold and ben pearson describe what the western workers went through before they were released and their afghan counterparts who received harsher treatment. from the southern festival of books held annually in nashville, this is 50 minutes. >> for three months in 2001, the desperate plight of eight international workers captured by the taliban in afghanistan captured the the attention of the world. with the growing specter of the u.s. retaliation for 9/11, the taliban and osama bin laden attempted to use these western hostages as bargaining tools. kabul 24 revisits not only these westerners' horrific 105 days in captivity, but also the torture endured by their 16 muslim co-workers who were accused by the taliban of converting to christianity. today we're going to hear