you can learn more about garrett peck's book and force at prohibitionhangover.com. >> there was a change in my life. given the title of my book, i met someone who would later become my husband and when i moved back so we could start our work together and go forward i began to experience firsthand all of the things uranian young people were dealing with when it came to marriage and moving on in life beyond simply being single and young. this started for me in the course of planning our wedding and there's a chapter in my book devoted to this. is the persian pride's hand book and it looks at the world of weddings. being the woman i was planning the wedding and was quite astonished by the world i encountered, the world of weddings and what a middle-class dream it was to have an extravagant wedding. i was familiar with the culture of extravagant wedding is. i suspected i would find it in iran especially among the middle class who could not afford these kinds of lavish spectacles. >> this was a portion of a booktv prog

researching his book, "the prohibition hangover: alcohol in america from demon rum to cult cabernet," garrett peck began getting temperment tours of historic sites in washington, d.c.. booktv joined mr. peck to learn how the temperance movement led to prohibition in 1920, and why prohibition was repealed in 1933. >> first of all what is prohibition and how did we get? >> it was started in january 16, 1920, once the 18th amendment was ratified but it was part of a century long movement to ban alcohol in this country. that movement was called the temperance movement that the idea behind there initially, temperance men to moderate one's drinking, but by the 1820s, the movement decided that peo cm a call. this was led by evangelical churches started in the 18 tens, and they believed alcohol was simple, it was wrong. they called it demon rum. they associate alcohol with a double. and therefore, everybody had to stop writing altogether. this movement lasted a century long. their idea what to clean up and sober up american society and eventually end up with a decent, middle-class, white paste protestant

. >> the author is garrett peck and the book is the provision hangover. thanks. >> thank you for having me here today. >>> jeffrey haas whose clients included the black panthers and students for democratic society, recounts the death of fred hampton head of the college after of the black panther party on december 4th, 1969. northwestern university school all in chicago hosts this to our event -- two-hour event >> chairman of the black panther party. if i am a revolutionary. ♪ black people need peace and white people need peace. ♪ they want to get rid of me because i'm saying something that matters. ♪ .. as soon as arjun daniel and officer james davis who were leading our men and announce their office i gave-- shotgun fire. >> sir, you say you are men were fired upon. witnesses to have seen the apartment say there is no evidence of bullets from the direction where the panthers supposedly were to be. if. >> is played an active legitimatized murder strips all credibility from law-enforcement. in the context of other acts against blacks in recent months it's

researching his book, "the prohibition hangover: alcohol in america from demon rum to cult cabernet," garrett peck began getting temperment tours in washington, d.c.. booktv joined to learn how the temperance movement led to prohibition in 1920 and my prohibition was repealed in 1933. the tour begins at the little-known temperance fountain near pennsylvania avenue. smacked a site where sitting on right now is axley seventh and pennsylvania avenue at about halfway between the white house and the capitol. where the temperance once stood. they moved it in the 1980s about 100 feet north of us here. the site is very, very strategic here in washington, d.c., because again halfway between the white house and the capitol. right across from what once was a very, very bad neighborhood called murder row. a statue stood right in front of this building. at the base of it was a store called the apex liquor store. so it's kind of ironic that the statue itself eventually ended up in front of a liquor store. >> you said originally that the