List of After Words interviews first aired in 2012

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 7, 2012Jack AbramoffEliza Newlin CarneyCapitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist
January 14, 2012Chris MatthewsSam DonaldsonJack Kennedy: Elusive HeroJohn F. Kennedy
January 21, 2012George NashRichard Norton SmithFreedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath
January 28, 2012Zbigniew BrzezinskiMichael HirschStrategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global PowerForeign policy of the United States
February 4, 2012Deborah ScrogginsAkbar AhmedWanted WomenAyaan Hirsi Ali, Aafia Siddiqui
February 13, 2012Eric KlinenbergKim BlankenshipGoing Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
February 18, 2012Ira ShapiroBernie SandersThe Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis
February 25, 2012Richard Thompson FordSuzanne NosselUniversal Rights Down to Earth
March 3, 2012John Lewis GaddisSusan GlasserGeorge F. Kennan: An American LifeGeorge Kennan
March 12, 2012Maggie AndersonKrissah ThompsonOur Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided EconomyBlack capitalism
March 17, 2012Linda KillianMichael TomaskyThe Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of IndependentsIndependent voters
March 24, 2012Craig TimbergScott EvertzTinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
March 31, 2012Alain de BottonChris HedgesReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of ReligionAtheism and religion
April 9, 2012Liza MundyApril RyanThe Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
April 14, 2012Dick TeresiSally SatelThe Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers - How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and DeathEthics of Organ Transplantation
April 21, 2012Dale CarpenterDavid SavageFlagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. TexasLawrence v. Texas
May 5, 2012Seth JonesKimberly DozierHunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11Al Qaeda
May 12, 2012Van JonesJackie KucinichRebuild the Dream
May 19, 2012Jay NordlingerMatt MurrayPeace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the WorldNobel Peace Prize
May 28, 2012Victor ChaScott SnyderThe Impossible State: North Korea, Past and FutureNorth Korea
June 2, 2012Steve CollDina CappielloPrivate Empire: ExxonMobil and American PowerExxonMobil
June 10, 2012Madeleine AlbrightAnn BlackmanPrague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
June 23, 2012Katie PavlichMajor GarrettFast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-UpATF gunwalking scandal
June 30, 2012Fawaz GergesPhyllis BennisObama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment?
July 7, 2012Martha RosenbergStephanie BeasleyBorn with a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health
July 14, 2012Peter CollierAngela StentPolitical Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane KirkpatrickJeane Kirkpatrick
July 18, 2012Jonah GoldbergNia-Malika HendersonThe Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
July 23, 2012Kaitlin Bell BarnettJudith WarnerDosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up
July 28, 2012Frederick HarrisCharlton McIlwainThe Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics
August 5, 2012David CristEllen LaipsonThe Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with IranIran–United States relations
August 12, 2012Edward ConardMichael EttlingerUnintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong
August 18, 2012John Fund and Hans von SpakovskyLinda KillianWho's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk
August 26, 2012John Corvino and Maggie GallagherDebating Same-Sex MarriageCorvino and Gallagher interviewed each other about the book they co-wrote, in which they espoused opposing views on Same-sex marriage.
September 2, 2012Donald Barlett and James SteeleJuan WilliamsThe Betrayal of the American Dream
September 9, 2012Kofi AnnanKatty KayInterventions: A Life in War and Peace
September 16, 2012Anton TreuerJacqueline PataEverything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to AskNative Americans in the United States
September 22, 2012Richard MiniterKarlyn BowmanLeading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him
September 29, 2012Sasha IssenbergNancy JacobsonThe Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
October 7, 2012John JenkinsJoan BiskupicThe Partisan: The Life of William RehnquistWilliam Rehnquist
October 13, 2012Marguerite GuzmanAmy GoodmanThe Invisible Wounds of War: Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
October 20, 2012Hanna RosinTucker CarlsonThe End of Men - and the Rise of Women
October 28, 2012David ColemanJames HershbergThe Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis
November 4, 2012Salman KhanNina ReesThe One World Schoolhouse: Education ReimaginedKhan Academy
November 10, 2012David Cay JohnstonJayne O'DonnellThe Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" and Other Tricks to Rob You Blind
November 17, 2012James PattersonDaryl ScottThe Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America1965 in the United States
November 25, 2012Gautam MukundaRichard BrookhiserIndispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
December 1, 2012Ray KurzweilIngrid WickelgrenHow to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
December 8, 2012Marty MakaryRichard DaviesUnaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
December 15, 2012Cynthia LowenDonna LiebermanBully: An Action Plan for Teachers and Parents to Combat the Bullying Epidemic in AmericaBullying
December 22, 2012Craig WhitneyPaul HelmkeLiving with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment
December 29, 2012Oliver Stone and Peter KuznickMichael KazinThe Untold History of the United States

References

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