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 | Interviewee | Interviewer | Book | Topic of interview / Comments |
| Yuval Levin | Jonah Goldberg | The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left | Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine | |
| Ranya Tabari Idliby | Daisy Khan | Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America | Islam in the United States, Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States | |
| Nicholas Johnson | Zaheer Ali | Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms | ||
| Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | Tanzina Vega | Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States | Hispanic and Latino Americans, History of Hispanic and Latino Americans | |
| Angela Stent | Dimitri Simes | The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century | Russia–United States relations | |
| John Rizzo | Dana Priest | Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA | Central Intelligence Agency | |
| Keith Ellison | Corey Mitchell | My Country, 'Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future | ||
| Aram Goudsouzian | Rich Benjamin | Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear | James Meredith | |
| Gabriel Sherman | Jane Hall | The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News -- and Divided a Country | Roger Ailes, Fox News | |
| Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld | David Plotz | The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America | ||
| George Nash | Amity Shlaes | The Crusade Years 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath | Herbert Hoover | |
| Paul Taylor | Jonathan Last | The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown | Millennials, Baby Boomers | |
| Walid Phares | Joshua Muravchik | The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid | United States foreign policy in the Middle East, Arab Spring | |
| Zachary Karabell | Kimberly Strassel | The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers that Rule Our World | ||
| Cal Thomas | Juan Williams | What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America | ||
| Ezekiel Emanuel | Sally Satel | Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | |
| Patrick Tucker | Heidi Boghosian | The Naked Future: What Happens in a World that Anticipates Your Every Move | Predictive analytics | |
| Burton Folsom | Kevin Williamson | Uncle Sam Can't Count: A History of Failed Government Investments, from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy | ||
| Nomi Prins | Larry Doyle | All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power | ||
| John Paul Stevens | Jeffrey Rosen | Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution | U.S. Constitution | |
| Jo Becker | Suzanne Goldberg | Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality | Same-sex marriage in the United States | |
| Susan Stranahan | Gregory Jaczko | Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster | Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster | |
| Jeremy Rifkin | Siva Vaidhyanathan | The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism | Internet of Things | |
| Ken Adelman | Romesh Ratnesar | Reagan at Reykjavik: The Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War | Reykjavík Summit, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev | |
| Rick Santorum | Tucker Carlson | Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works | ||
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Toby Harnden | War and Gold: A 500-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt | ||
| Matt Kibbe | Tim Carney | Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto | Libertarianism in the United States | |
| Jason Riley | April Ryan | Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed | ||
| Jay Barbree | Michael Neufeld | Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight | Neil Armstrong | |
| Chris Tomlinson | Lavar Tomlinson | Tomlinson Hill | Tomlinson Hill, Texas | |
| Cheryl Chumley | Theresa Payton | Police State U.S.A.: How Orwell's Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality | ||
| John Dean | Bob Woodward | The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It | Richard Nixon, Watergate scandal | |
| Daniel Halper | Juan Williams | Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine | ||
| Ben Carson | Chuck Todd | One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future | ||
| William Burrows | Arlin Crotts | The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth Objects | Asteroid impact avoidance | |
| Mike Gonzalez | Niger Innis | A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans | Hispanic and Latino Conservatism in the United States | |
| Ken Silverstein | Megan McArdle | The Secret World of Oil | Petroleum industry | |
| Caleb Scharf | Ingrid Wickelgren | The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities | ||
| Matt Richtel | Maggie Jackson | A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention | Distracted driving | |
| Heather Cox Richardson | Matthew Continetti | To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party | Republican Party (United States) | |
| Atul Gawande | Marty Makary | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | End-of-life care, Palliative care | |
| Jake Halpern | Nomi Prins | Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld | Debt buyers | |
| Linda Tirado | Tracey Ross | Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America | Poverty in the United States | |
| James McPherson | James Swanson | Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief | Jefferson Davis | |
| Jeff Chang | Marc Lamont Hill | Who We Be: The Colorization of America | Race and ethnicity in the United States | |
| Karen Armstrong | Sally Quinn | Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence | ||
| Sharyl Attkisson | Nia-Malika Henderson | Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation and Harassment in Obama's Washington | ||
| Jonathan Eig | Katha Pollitt | The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution | Birth control pill | |
| Jason Sokol | Michael Meyers | All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn | ||
| Lindsay Mark Lewis | Dave Levinthal | Political Mercenaries: The Inside Story of How Fundraisers Allowed Billionaires to Take Over Politics | ||
| William Deresiewicz | Chester Gillis | Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life | ||
| Damon Root | Jenna Greene | Overruled: The Long War for Control of the Supreme Court |