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 4, 2014 | Yuval Levin | Jonah Goldberg | The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left | Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine | |
| January 11, 2014 | 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 | |
| January 18, 2014 | Nicholas Johnson | Zaheer Ali | Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms | ||
| January 25, 2014 | Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | Tanzina Vega | Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States | Hispanic and Latino Americans, History of Hispanic and Latino Americans | |
| February 1, 2014 | Angela Stent | Dimitri Simes | The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century | Russia–United States relations | |
| February 8, 2014 | John Rizzo | Dana Priest | Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA | Central Intelligence Agency | |
| February 15, 2014 | Keith Ellison | Corey Mitchell | My Country, 'Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future | ||
| February 22, 2014 | Aram Goudsouzian | Rich Benjamin | Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear | James Meredith | |
| March 1, 2014 | Gabriel Sherman | Jane Hall | Roger Ailes, Fox News | ||
| March 8, 2014 | Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld | David Plotz | The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America | ||
| March 15, 2014 | George Nash | Amity Shlaes | The Crusade Years 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath | Herbert Hoover | |
| March 22, 2014 | Paul Taylor | Jonathan Last | The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown | Millennials, Baby Boomers | |
| March 29, 2014 | 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 | |
| April 5, 2014 | Zachary Karabell | Kimberly Strassel | The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers that Rule Our World | ||
| April 12, 2014 | Cal Thomas | Juan Williams | What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America | ||
| April 19, 2014 | 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 | |
| April 26, 2014 | Patrick Tucker | Heidi Boghosian | The Naked Future: What Happens in a World that Anticipates Your Every Move | Predictive analytics | |
| May 3, 2014 | Burton Folsom | Kevin Williamson | Uncle Sam Can't Count: A History of Failed Government Investments, from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy | ||
| May 10, 2014 | Nomi Prins | Larry Doyle | All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power | ||
| May 17, 2014 | John Paul Stevens | Jeffrey Rosen | Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution | U.S. Constitution | |
| May 24, 2014 | Jo Becker | Suzanne Goldberg | Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality | Same-sex marriage in the United States | |
| May 31, 2014 | Susan Stranahan | Gregory Jaczko | Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster | Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster | |
| June 7, 2014 | Jeremy Rifkin | Siva Vaidhyanathan | The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism | Internet of Things | |
| June 14, 2014 | Ken Adelman | Romesh Ratnesar | Reagan at Reykjavik: The Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War | Reykjavík Summit, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev | |
| June 21, 2014 | Rick Santorum | Tucker Carlson | Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works | ||
| June 28, 2014 | Kwasi Kwarteng | Toby Harnden | War and Gold: A 500-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt | ||
| July 5, 2014 | Matt Kibbe | Tim Carney | Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto | Libertarianism in the United States | |
| July 12, 2014 | Jason Riley | April Ryan | Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed | ||
| July 19, 2014 | Jay Barbree | Michael Neufeld | Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight | Neil Armstrong | |
| July 26, 2014 | Chris Tomlinson | Lavar Tomlinson | Tomlinson Hill | Tomlinson Hill, Texas | |
| August 2, 2014 | Cheryl Chumley | Theresa Payton | Police State U.S.A.: How Orwell's Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality | ||
| August 9, 2014 | John Dean | Bob Woodward | The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It | Richard Nixon, Watergate scandal | |
| August 16, 2014 | Daniel Halper | Juan Williams | Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine | ||
| August 23, 2014 | Ben Carson | Chuck Todd | One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future | ||
| August 30, 2014 | William Burrows | Arlin Crotts | The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth Objects | Asteroid impact avoidance | |
| September 6, 2014 | 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 | |
| September 13, 2014 | Ken Silverstein | Megan McArdle | The Secret World of Oil | Petroleum industry | |
| September 20, 2014 | Caleb Scharf | Ingrid Wickelgren | The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities | ||
| September 27, 2014 | Matt Richtel | Maggie Jackson | A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention | Distracted driving | |
| October 4, 2014 | Heather Cox Richardson | Matthew Continetti | To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party | Republican Party (United States) | |
| October 11, 2014 | Atul Gawande | Marty Makary | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | End-of-life care, Palliative care | |
| October 18, 2014 | Jake Halpern | Nomi Prins | Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld | Debt buyers | |
| October 25, 2014 | Linda Tirado | Tracey Ross | |||
| November 1, 2014 | James McPherson | James Swanson | Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief | Jefferson Davis | |
| November 8, 2014 | Jeff Chang | Marc Lamont Hill | Who We Be: The Colorization of America | Race and ethnicity in the United States | |
| November 15, 2014 | Karen Armstrong | Sally Quinn | Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence | ||
| November 22, 2014 | Sharyl Attkisson | Nia-Malika Henderson | Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation and Harassment in Obama's Washington | ||
| November 29, 2014 | Jonathan Eig | Katha Pollitt | The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution | Birth control pill | |
| December 6, 2014 | Jason Sokol | Michael Meyers | All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn | ||
| December 13, 2014 | Lindsay Mark Lewis | Dave Levinthal | Political Mercenaries: The Inside Story of How Fundraisers Allowed Billionaires to Take Over Politics | ||
| December 20, 2014 | William Deresiewicz | Chester Gillis | |||
| December 27, 2014 | Damon Root | Jenna Greene | Overruled: The Long War for Control of the Supreme Court |