List of After Words interviews first aired in 2005

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)BookTopic of interview / Comments
January 2, 2005Newt GingrichNorman OrnsteinWinning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America
January 9, 2005Howard FrielKen AdelmanThe Record of the Paper: How the 'New York Times' Misreports U.S. Foreign PolicyThe New York Times
January 16, 2005Helen PrejeanVictoria ToensingThe Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful ExecutionsWrongful execution
January 23, 2005Craig ShirleyJoseph TrippiReagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It AllRepublican Party presidential primaries, 1976, Ronald Reagan
January 30, 2005Melissa Boyle MahleDana PriestDenial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA From Iran Contra to 9/11The Central Intelligence Agency
February 6, 2005Essie Mae Washington-WilliamsHarold Ford, Jr.Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom ThurmondStrom Thurmond
February 13, 2005Natan SharanskyTom GjeltenThe Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
February 20, 2005Doug WeadHarold GullanThe Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of our Nation's Leaders
February 27, 2005William HagueMartin TurnerWilliam Pitt the YoungerWilliam Pitt the Younger
March 6, 2005Donald RitchieJohn DickersonReporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps
March 13, 2005Tom FentonRoger MuddBad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All
March 20, 2005Ari FleischerKaren HoslerTaking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House
March 27, 2005Jim WallisRandy TateGod's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
April 3, 2005Roy MooreBill PressSo Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious FreedomGlassroth v. Moore
April 10, 2005Ernestine BradleyHadassah LiebermanThe Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life
April 17, 2005Bob DoleRick AtkinsonOne Soldier's Story: A Memoir
April 24, 2005Jorge RamosLinda ChavezDying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History
May 1, 2005Linda GreenhouseTim O'BrienBecoming Harry Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court JourneyHarry Blackmun
May 8, 2005Byron YorkClarence PageThe Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President--and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time
May 15, 2005Michael Eric DysonDebra DickersonIs Bill Cosby Right: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
May 22, 2005Ronald RadoshJack ValentiRed Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left
May 29, 2005Jack CoughlinTony CapaccioShooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
June 5, 2005Zell MillerJohn AndersonA Deficit of Decency
June 12, 2005Patricia O'TooleTom DaschleWhen Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White HouseTheodore Roosevelt
June 19, 2005Neil BaldwinJoseph BottumThe American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War
June 26, 2005David RothkopfJames BamfordRunning the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American PowerUnited States National Security Council
July 3, 2005Robert W. MerryHarlan UllmanSands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition
July 10, 2005Bob WoodwardJames MannThe Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep ThroatMark Felt, Deep Throat
July 17, 2005Victor NavaskyDavid FrumA Matter of Opinion
July 24, 2005Asra NomaniAkbar AhmedStanding Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
July 31, 2005Rick SantorumKirk VictorIt Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good
August 7, 2005Kenneth WalshSusan EisenhowerFrom Mount Vernon to Crawford: A History of the Presidents and Their Retreats
August 14, 2005Harvey KayeMichael NovakThomas Paine and the Promise of AmericaThomas Paine
August 21, 2005Ralph PetersAnatol LievenNew Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy
August 28, 2005Sheldon HackneyJanet Langhart CohenMagnolias Without Moonlight: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National IntegrationHistory of the Southern United States, Politics of the Southern United States
September 3, 2005Charles PetersThomas FlemingFive Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing 'We Want Willkie!' Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World1940 Republican National Convention
September 10, 2005Barbara EhrenreichStephen MooreBait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
September 17, 2005Steve ForbesAlice RivlinFlat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRSFlat tax
September 24, 2005Tony BlankleyBarbara SlavinThe West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?
October 1, 2005Andrea MitchellRobert LichterTalking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
October 8, 2005Chris WhittleJay MathewsCrash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education
October 15, 2005Bing WestMark MazzettiNo True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for FallujahSecond Battle of Fallujah
October 22, 2005Mary Frances BerryJuan WilliamsMy Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave ReparationsCallie House
October 29, 2005Thomas P.M. BarnettTom FeeneyBlueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating
November 6, 2005Jimmy CarterBrian WilliamsOur Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
November 12, 2005Bill RichardsonChuck ToddBetween Worlds: The Making of an American Life
November 19, 2005Nathaniel FickAndrew CarrollOne Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine OfficerUnited States Marine Corps
November 26, 2005Bruce ChadwickEdward LengelThe First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America's First Fight for FreedomGeorge Washington
December 3, 2005Mary MapesBrent BozellTruth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of PowerKillian documents controversy
December 10, 2005Haynes JohnsonJoseph diGenovaThe Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
December 17th, 2005John LinderDavid WesselThe FairTax BookFairTax
December 24, 2005George WeigelJon MeachamGod's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic ChurchPope Benedict XVI
December 31, 2005Janis KarpinskiDouglas MacgregorOne Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her StoryAbu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

References

  1. Jim Milliot (10 January 2005). "BookTV Eyes More Original Programming". Publishers Weekly.
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