After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network ’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV . The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.[ 1]
First air date (Links to video)
Interviewee(s)
Interviewer(s)
Book
Topic of interview / Comments
January 2, 2010
Gail Collins
Gwen Ifill
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
January 9, 2010
David Wessel
Alice Rivlin
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
Ben Bernanke , Financial crisis of 2007–2008
January 16, 2010
Peniel Joseph
Kevin Merida
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
January 23, 2010
Thomas Fleming
Barbara Mitnick
The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
Founding Fathers of the United States
January 30, 2010
John Yoo
Victoria Toensing
Crisis and Command
February 6, 2010
Joseph Stiglitz
Lori Wallach
Freefall
Financial crisis of 2007–2008
February 13, 2010
Garry Wills
Tom Blanton
Bomb Power
February 20, 2010
Ken Gormley
Greg Craig
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton v. Starr
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
February 27, 2010
George Packer
Christopher Hitchens
Facing Unpleasant Facts and All Art Is Propaganda
George Orwell
March 13, 2010
Bill and Janet Cohen
John Lewis
Race & Reconciliation
March 21, 2010
Diane Ravitch
Valerie Strauss
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
March 27, 2010
Bill Bennett
Walter Isaacson
A Century Turns
April 3, 2010
Jack Matlock
Dimitri Simes
Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - and How to Return to Reality
April 10, 2010
Deborah Amos
Mohamad Bazzi
Eclipse of the Sunnis
Sunni Islam
April 17, 2010
Harry Markopolos
Nicole Gelinas
No One Would Listen
Madoff investment scandal
April 24, 2010
Mark Perry
Larry Johnson
Talking to Terrorists
May 1, 2010
Elaine Tyler
Christina Hoff Sommers
America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation
The birth control pill , Margaret Sanger , Katharine McCormick
May 8, 2010
Piper Kerman
Ted Conover
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
May 15, 2010
John Kiriakou
Frederick Hitz
The Reluctant Spy
May 22, 2010
Michael Graham
Jonathan Karl
That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom
The Tea Party movement
May 29, 2010
Sebastian Junger
Paul Rieckhoff
War
173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan, 2007-2008
May 31, 2010
Mitt Romney
Juan Williams
No Apology: The Case for American Greatness
June 5, 2010
Stephen Prothero
Sally Quinn
God is Not One
Conceptions of God
June 13, 2010
Gary Rivlin
Heather Mac Donald
Broke USA
June 26, 2010
Jere Van Dyk
George Packer
Captive: My Time As A Prisoner of the Taliban
July 10, 2010
Andrew Napolitano
Ralph Nader
Lies the Government Told You
July 11, 2010
Arthur Brooks and Strobe Talbott
The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future (by Brooks) and Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (by Talbott)
Brooks and Talbott interviewed each other about the other's book.
July 17, 2010
Alan Brinkley
Sam Tanenhaus
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
Henry Luce
July 24, 2010
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Paula Dobriansky
Nomad
July 31, 2010
Carl Cannon
Paul Clement
Circle of Greed
William Lerach
August 7, 2010
Richard Whittle
John Pike
The Dream Machine
V-22 Osprey
August 14, 2010
Peter Beinart
Mike Allen
The Icarus Syndrome
August 21, 2010
Michael Belfiore
Joanne Carney
The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs
DARPA
August 28, 2010
Sebastian Mallaby
Gillian Tett
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Hedge funds
September 4, 2010
David Kilcullen
Lawrence Wilkerson
Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency
September 11, 2010
Arianna Huffington
Maria Bartiromo
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
September 18, 2010
Gabriel Schoenfeld
Michael Mukasey
Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law
September 27, 2010
Louise Knight
Dan Moshenberg
Jane Addams: Spirit in Action
Jane Addams
October 3, 2010
James Swanson
Edna Greene Medford
Bloody Crimes
Jefferson Davis , Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln
October 9, 2010
Hooman Majd
Hamid Dabashi
The Ayatollah's Democracy
Politics of Iran
October 16, 2010
Maria Bartiromo
Yves Smith
The Weekend That Changed Wall Street
October 23, 2010
Dinesh D'Souza
Jonathan Alter
The Roots of Obama's Rage
November 1, 2010
Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen
Amity Shlaes
Mad as Hell
Tea Party movement
November 14, 2010
Nigel Hamilton
Richard Norton Smith
American Caesars
November 20, 2010
John Dower
Sanho Tree
Cultures of War
November 21, 2010
Ron Christie
Janet Langhart Cohen
Acting White
November 28, 2010
James Zogby
Barbara Slavin
Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why it Matters
December 11, 2010
Noah Feldman
Dahlia Lithwick
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
Felix Frankfurter , Hugo Black , Robert Jackson , William O. Douglas
December 12, 2010
Jimmy Carter
Doug Brinkley
White House Diary
December 18, 2010
Hugh Shelton
William Cohen
Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
December 27, 2010
Jane Smiley
Cecilia Kang
The Man Who Invented the Computer
John Vincent Atanasoff
References
^ Jim Milliot (10 January 2005). "BookTV Eyes More Original Programming". Publishers Weekly .
Programming
Regular programs After Words interviewsQ&A interviewsWashington Journal programs by monthPast programs Booknotes interviews
Topics People