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.[1]

First air date
(Links to video)
Interviewee(s)Interviewer(s)BookTopic of interview / Comments
January 4, 2014Yuval LevinJonah GoldbergThe Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and LeftEdmund Burke, Thomas Paine
January 11, 2014Ranya Tabari IdlibyDaisy KhanBurqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in AmericaIslam in the United States, Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States
January 18, 2014Nicholas JohnsonZaheer AliNegroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
January 25, 2014Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoTanzina VegaOur America: A Hispanic History of the United StatesHispanic and Latino Americans, History of Hispanic and Latino Americans
February 1, 2014Angela StentDimitri SimesThe Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First CenturyRussia–United States relations
February 8, 2014John RizzoDana PriestCompany Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIACentral Intelligence Agency
February 15, 2014Keith EllisonCorey MitchellMy Country, 'Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future
February 22, 2014Aram GoudsouzianRich BenjaminDown to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against FearJames Meredith
March 1, 2014Gabriel ShermanJane HallThe Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News -- and Divided a CountryRoger Ailes, Fox News
March 8, 2014Amy Chua & Jed RubenfeldDavid PlotzThe Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
March 15, 2014George NashAmity ShlaesThe Crusade Years 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its AftermathHerbert Hoover
March 22, 2014Paul TaylorJonathan LastThe Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational ShowdownMillennials, Baby Boomers
March 29, 2014Walid PharesJoshua MuravchikThe Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to AvoidUnited States foreign policy in the Middle East, Arab Spring
April 5, 2014Zachary KarabellKimberly StrasselThe Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers that Rule Our World
April 12, 2014Cal ThomasJuan WilliamsWhat Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America
April 19, 2014Ezekiel 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
April 26, 2014Patrick TuckerHeidi BoghosianThe Naked Future: What Happens in a World that Anticipates Your Every MovePredictive analytics
May 3, 2014Burton FolsomKevin WilliamsonUncle Sam Can't Count: A History of Failed Government Investments, from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy
May 10, 2014Nomi PrinsLarry DoyleAll the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power
May 17, 2014John Paul StevensJeffrey RosenSix Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the ConstitutionU.S. Constitution
May 24, 2014Jo BeckerSuzanne GoldbergForcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage EqualitySame-sex marriage in the United States
May 31, 2014Susan StranahanGregory JaczkoFukushima: The Story of a Nuclear DisasterFukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
June 7, 2014Jeremy RifkinSiva VaidhyanathanThe Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of CapitalismInternet of Things
June 14, 2014Ken AdelmanRomesh RatnesarReagan at Reykjavik: The Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold WarReykjavík Summit, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev
June 21, 2014Rick SantorumTucker CarlsonBlue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works
June 28, 2014Kwasi KwartengToby HarndenWar and Gold: A 500-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
July 5, 2014Matt KibbeTim CarneyDon't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian ManifestoLibertarianism in the United States
July 12, 2014Jason RileyApril RyanPlease Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed
July 19, 2014Jay BarbreeMichael NeufeldNeil Armstrong: A Life of FlightNeil Armstrong
July 26, 2014Chris TomlinsonLavar TomlinsonTomlinson HillTomlinson Hill, Texas
August 2, 2014Cheryl ChumleyTheresa PaytonPolice State U.S.A.: How Orwell's Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality
August 9, 2014John DeanBob WoodwardThe Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew ItRichard Nixon, Watergate scandal
August 16, 2014Daniel HalperJuan WilliamsClinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine
August 23, 2014Ben CarsonChuck ToddOne Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
August 30, 2014William BurrowsArlin CrottsThe Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth ObjectsAsteroid impact avoidance
September 6, 2014Mike GonzalezNiger InnisA Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic AmericansHispanic and Latino Conservatism in the United States
September 13, 2014Ken SilversteinMegan McArdleThe Secret World of OilPetroleum industry
September 20, 2014Caleb ScharfIngrid WickelgrenThe Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
September 27, 2014Matt RichtelMaggie JacksonA Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of AttentionDistracted driving
October 4, 2014Heather Cox RichardsonMatthew ContinettiTo Make Men Free: A History of the Republican PartyRepublican Party (United States)
October 11, 2014Atul GawandeMarty MakaryBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndEnd-of-life care, Palliative care
October 18, 2014Jake HalpernNomi PrinsBad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the UnderworldDebt buyers
October 25, 2014Linda TiradoTracey RossHand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap AmericaPoverty in the United States
November 1, 2014James McPhersonJames SwansonEmbattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in ChiefJefferson Davis
November 8, 2014Jeff ChangMarc Lamont HillWho We Be: The Colorization of AmericaRace and ethnicity in the United States
November 15, 2014Karen ArmstrongSally QuinnFields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
November 22, 2014Sharyl AttkissonNia-Malika HendersonStonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation and Harassment in Obama's Washington
November 29, 2014Jonathan EigKatha PollittThe Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a RevolutionBirth control pill
December 6, 2014Jason SokolMichael MeyersAll Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
December 13, 2014Lindsay Mark LewisDave LevinthalPolitical Mercenaries: The Inside Story of How Fundraisers Allowed Billionaires to Take Over Politics
December 20, 2014William DeresiewiczChester GillisExcellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
December 27, 2014Damon RootJenna GreeneOverruled: The Long War for Control of the Supreme Court

References

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