List of After Words interviews first aired in 2015
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 |
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January 3, 2015 | Chuck Todd | Dan Balz | The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House | Presidency of Barack Obama |
January 10, 2015 | Cass Sunstein | Susan Cain | Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter | Group decision-making |
January 17, 2015 | Bret Stephens | America in Retreat | Foreign policy of the United States | |
January 24, 2015 | Mike Huckabee | S. E. Cupp | God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy | |
January 31, 2015 | April Ryan | Ann Compton | The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America | |
February 7, 2015 | Toby Harnden | Dead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan | ||
February 14, 2015 | David Axelrod | David Frum | Believer: My Forty Years in Politics | |
February 21, 2015 | Wes Moore | The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters | ||
February 28, 2015 | Tucker Carlson | Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters - Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler | ||
March 7, 2015 | David Morris | Kayla Williams | The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Posttraumatic stress disorder |
March 14, 2015 | William Bennett | Jonah Goldberg | Going to Pot: Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana is Harming America | Cannabis in the United States |
March 21, 2015 | Eric Foner | Edna Greene Medford | Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad | The Underground Railroad |
March 28, 2015 | Peter Wallison | Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again | ||
April 4, 2015 | Cornel West | Khalil Gibran Muhammad | The Radical King | Martin Luther King Jr. |
April 11, 2015 | Grover Norquist | End the IRS Before It Ends Us: How to Restore a Low Tax, High Growth, Wealthy America | Internal Revenue Service | |
April 18, 2015 | Be Safe, Love Mom: A Military Mom’s Stories of Courage, Comfort, and Surviving Life on the Homefront | |||
April 25, 2015 | Colman McCarthy | Medea Benjamin | Teaching Peace | |
May 2, 2015 | Michelle Obama: A Life | Michelle Obama | ||
May 9, 2015 | Jon Krakauer | Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town | ||
May 16, 2015 | Under the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run Over | |||
May 23, 2015 | Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Rodney Slater | Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead | Transportation in the United States |
May 30, 2015 | Kenji Yoshino | Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial | Hollingsworth v. Perry | |
June 6, 2015 | Joseph Stiglitz | Heather McGhee | The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them | |
June 13, 2015 | Kirsten Powers | Sharyl Attkisson | The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech | |
June 20, 2015 | Mona Eltahawy | Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs A Sexual Revolution | ||
June 27, 2015 | Nelson Denis | War Against All Puerto Ricans | ||
July 4, 2015 | Carol Berkin | Maeva Marcus | The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties | The U.S. Bill of Rights |
July 11, 2015 | Charles Shields | Neely Tucker | Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
July 18, 2015 | Jeffery Deaver | The Millionaire and the Bard | Henry Clay Folger, Shakespeare's First Folio | |
July 25, 2015 | Ralph Nader | Andy Shallal | Return to Sender | |
August 1, 2015 | Maya MacGuineas | Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis | ||
August 8, 2015 | Charles Murray | Jared Bernstein | By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission | |
August 15, 2015 | Claire McCaskill | Susan Glasser | Plenty Ladylike | |
August 22, 2015 | Arthur Brooks | Michael Steele | The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier and More Prosperous America | |
August 29, 2015 | Dan-el Padilla Peralta | Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League | ||
September 5, 2015 | Kathryn Edin | Gwen Moore | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | |
September 12, 2015 | Amy Klobuchar | Susan Page | ||
September 19, 2015 | Joy-Ann Reid | Fracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons, and the Racial Divide | ||
September 26, 2015 | Bill O'Reilly | Bay Buchanan | Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency | Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan |
October 3, 2015 | Mack McLarty | Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of Power | ||
October 10, 2015 | David Gregory | Sally Quinn | How's Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey | |
October 17, 2015 | Bethany McLean | Joe Light | Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac |
October 24, 2015 | John Danforth | Tim Hutchinson | The Relevance of Religion | |
October 31, 2015 | Sean Naylor | Dana Priest | Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command | Joint Special Operations Command |
November 7, 2015 | Ben Bernanke | Sherrod Brown | The Courage to Act | |
November 14, 2015 | Patrick Kennedy | Jim McDermott | A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction | |
November 21, 2015 | Niall Ferguson | Carla Anne Robbins | Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist | Henry Kissinger |
November 28, 2015 | Roberta Kaplan | Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA | United States v. Windsor | |
December 5, 2015 | Gilbert M. Gaul | Tom McMillen | Billion-Dollar Ball | |
December 12, 2015 | Theresa Brown | The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives | ||
December 19, 2015 | Sir Michael Marmot | The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World | ||
December 26, 2015 | Darcy Olsen | The Right to Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Lifesaving Treatments They Need |
References[]
- ^ Jim Milliot (10 January 2005). "BookTV Eyes More Original Programming". Publishers Weekly.
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