List of After Words interviews first aired in 2014


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.
First air date
IntervieweeInterviewerBookTopic of interview / Comments
Yuval LevinJonah GoldbergThe Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and LeftEdmund Burke, Thomas Paine
Ranya Tabari IdlibyDaisy KhanBurqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in AmericaIslam in the United States, Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States
Nicholas JohnsonZaheer AliNegroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoTanzina VegaOur America: A Hispanic History of the United StatesHispanic and Latino Americans, History of Hispanic and Latino Americans
Angela StentDimitri SimesThe Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First CenturyRussia–United States relations
John RizzoDana PriestCompany Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIACentral Intelligence Agency
Keith EllisonCorey MitchellMy Country, 'Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future
Aram GoudsouzianRich BenjaminDown to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against FearJames Meredith
Gabriel ShermanJane HallThe Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News -- and Divided a CountryRoger Ailes, Fox News
Amy Chua & Jed RubenfeldDavid PlotzThe Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
George NashAmity ShlaesThe Crusade Years 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its AftermathHerbert Hoover
Paul TaylorJonathan LastThe Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational ShowdownMillennials, Baby Boomers
Walid PharesJoshua MuravchikThe Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to AvoidUnited States foreign policy in the Middle East, Arab Spring
Zachary KarabellKimberly StrasselThe Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers that Rule Our World
Cal ThomasJuan WilliamsWhat Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America
Ezekiel EmanuelSally SatelReinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone SystemPatient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Patrick TuckerHeidi BoghosianThe Naked Future: What Happens in a World that Anticipates Your Every MovePredictive analytics
Burton FolsomKevin WilliamsonUncle Sam Can't Count: A History of Failed Government Investments, from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy
Nomi PrinsLarry DoyleAll the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power
John Paul StevensJeffrey RosenSix Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the ConstitutionU.S. Constitution
Jo BeckerSuzanne GoldbergForcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage EqualitySame-sex marriage in the United States
Susan StranahanGregory JaczkoFukushima: The Story of a Nuclear DisasterFukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Jeremy RifkinSiva VaidhyanathanThe Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of CapitalismInternet of Things
Ken AdelmanRomesh RatnesarReagan at Reykjavik: The Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold WarReykjavík Summit, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev
Rick SantorumTucker CarlsonBlue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works
Kwasi KwartengToby HarndenWar and Gold: A 500-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
Matt KibbeTim CarneyDon't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian ManifestoLibertarianism in the United States
Jason RileyApril RyanPlease Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Jay BarbreeMichael NeufeldNeil Armstrong: A Life of FlightNeil Armstrong
Chris TomlinsonLavar TomlinsonTomlinson HillTomlinson Hill, Texas
Cheryl ChumleyTheresa PaytonPolice State U.S.A.: How Orwell's Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality
John DeanBob WoodwardThe Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew ItRichard Nixon, Watergate scandal
Daniel HalperJuan WilliamsClinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine
Ben CarsonChuck ToddOne Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
William BurrowsArlin CrottsThe Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth ObjectsAsteroid impact avoidance
Mike GonzalezNiger InnisA Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic AmericansHispanic and Latino Conservatism in the United States
Ken SilversteinMegan McArdleThe Secret World of OilPetroleum industry
Caleb ScharfIngrid WickelgrenThe Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
Matt RichtelMaggie JacksonA Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of AttentionDistracted driving
Heather Cox RichardsonMatthew ContinettiTo Make Men Free: A History of the Republican PartyRepublican Party (United States)
Atul GawandeMarty MakaryBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndEnd-of-life care, Palliative care
Jake HalpernNomi PrinsBad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the UnderworldDebt buyers
Linda TiradoTracey RossHand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap AmericaPoverty in the United States
James McPhersonJames SwansonEmbattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in ChiefJefferson Davis
Jeff ChangMarc Lamont HillWho We Be: The Colorization of AmericaRace and ethnicity in the United States
Karen ArmstrongSally QuinnFields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
Sharyl AttkissonNia-Malika HendersonStonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation and Harassment in Obama's Washington
Jonathan EigKatha PollittThe Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a RevolutionBirth control pill
Jason SokolMichael MeyersAll Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
Lindsay Mark LewisDave LevinthalPolitical Mercenaries: The Inside Story of How Fundraisers Allowed Billionaires to Take Over Politics
William DeresiewiczChester GillisExcellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Damon RootJenna GreeneOverruled: The Long War for Control of the Supreme Court