List of After Words interviews first aired in 2014

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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 The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News -- and Divided a Country 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 Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America Poverty in the United States
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 Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
December 27, 2014 Damon Root Jenna Greene Overruled: The Long War for Control of the Supreme Court

References[edit]

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