List of After Words interviews first aired in 2008

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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 5, 2008 Susan Faludi Marie Arana The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
January 12, 2008 Cathy Wilkerson Bobby Rush Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman
January 19, 2008 Kiron Skinner The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin
January 26, 2008 Dana Milbank Juan Williams Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government
February 2, 2008 Pete Earley and Sergei Tretyakov Peter Earnest Comrade J: The Untold Story of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War
February 10, 2008 Michael Long Kevin Merida First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson
February 17, 2008 Akbar Ahmed Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West Mark Siegel discusses the book that he co-wrote with Benazir Bhutto, which was published several months after her assassination.
February 23, 2008 Anthony Lewis Ronald Collins Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment First Amendment to the United States Constitution
March 1, 2008 David Cay Johnston Maya MacGuineas Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
March 9, 2008 Michael Duffy The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation 9/11 Commission, Criticism of the 9/11 Commission
March 15, 2008 Mark Lynas Gene Karpinski Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Global warming, Climate change
March 22, 2008 Carl Cannon Bob Schieffer Reagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy George W. Bush
March 29, 2008 Robin Wright Anthony Cordesman Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
April 5, 2008 Dee Dee Myers Dana Perino Why Women Should Rule The World
April 12, 2008 Roy Gutman Moisés Naím How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan Osama bin Laden, The Taliban
April 20, 2008 Steve Coll Michael Scheuer The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century Bin Laden family
April 26, 2008 Susan Jacoby Nick Gillespie The Age of American Unreason
May 3, 2008 Bruce Bartlett Clarence Page Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past
May 11, 2008 Rupert Smith Winslow Wheeler The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
May 18, 2008 Cokie Roberts Patricia Schroeder Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
May 24, 2008 Matt Taibbi David Corn The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
May 31, 2008 Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman Pat Tillman
June 7, 2008 Robert Kagan Clifford May The Return of History and the End of Dreams
June 16, 2008 Ted Sorensen Robert Schlesinger Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
June 21, 2008 Andrew McCarthy Hugh Hewitt Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad
June 29, 2008 Tom Hayden Jon Wiener Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader
July 6, 2008 J. Phillip London Rowan Scarborough Our Good Name: A Company's Fight to Defend Its Honor and Get the Truth Told About Abu Ghraib CACI
July 13, 2008 Raj Patel Evan Kleiman Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
July 20, 2008 Rajmohan Gandhi Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire Mohandas K. Gandhi
July 26, 2008 Mahvish Ruksana Khan Nancy Snow My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me Guantanamo Bay detention camp
August 10, 2008 Patrick Cockburn James Zogby Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq Muqtada al-Sadr
August 17, 2008 Anthony Kronman Charles Murray Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
August 24, 2008 Thomas Frank Jeanne Cummings The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
August 31, 2008 Gary Schmitt After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy Foreign policy of the United States
September 7, 2008 Jane Mayer Dana Priest The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
September 14, 2008 Christopher Buckley Charles Kesler Supreme Courtship
September 22, 2008 Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft David Ignatius America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy Foreign policy of the United States
September 28, 2008 Harry Reid Tom Daschle The Good Fight
October 4, 2008 Tariq Ali Robert Dreyfuss The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power Pakistan–United States relations
October 11, 2008 Bob Schieffer Rita Braver Bob Schieffer's America
October 18, 2008 James Bamford The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America National Security Agency
October 25, 2008 Andrew Bacevich Ivan Eland The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
November 1, 2008 Kimberly Dozier Breathing Fire: Fighting to Report -- and Survive -- the War in Iraq Iraq War, Media coverage of the Iraq War
November 8, 2008 Marian Wright Edelman Geoffrey Canada The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation
November 15, 2008 Bill Gertz Frank Gaffney The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War
November 30, 2008 Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath
December 6, 2008 Michael Medved Mona Charen The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
December 14, 2008 Brian Michael Jenkins P.J. Crowley Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?
December 21, 2008 David Reynolds Robert Remini Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson
December 28, 2008 Philip Dray Peniel Joseph Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen

References[]

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