List of After Words interviews first aired in 2009

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 3, 2009Jay PariniSam TanenhausPromised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America
January 11, 2009Christopher HornerJed BabbinRed Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
January 18, 2009Robert BorkEugene MeyerA Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments
January 24, 2009David SangerBob DeansThe Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
January 31, 2009Gwen IfillDavid BrooksThe Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
February 7, 2009Bryan BurroughJoe BartonThe Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes H.L. Hunt, Roy Cullen, Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison
February 14, 2009Philip HowardJoan BiskupicLife Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law
February 21, 2009Roger L. SimonArmstrong WilliamsBlacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
March 14, 2009Ann CoulterMichelle EastonGuilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
March 21, 2009Felix RohatynGreg IpBold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now
April 4, 2009Ivan ElandRon PaulRecarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
April 11, 2009Neal BascombElizabeth HoltzmanHunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann, The Mossad
April 18, 2009Paul EscottJane Turner Censer"What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America
April 25, 2009Alan BeattiePatrice HillFalse Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World Economic history of the world
May 2, 2009Liaquat AhamedGerald SeibLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Benjamin Strong, Jr., Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman, Émile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht
May 9, 2009Frederick HitzPeter EarnestWhy Spy?: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty
May 14, 2009William CohanDeborah SolomonHouse of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street Bear Stearns
May 16, 2009Mark RuddIshmael ReedUnderground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen Students for a Democratic Society, Weather Underground
May 23, 2009Elaine ShowalterSara NelsonA Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
May 30, 2009Bethany MoretonNancy MacLeanTo Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise Wal-Mart
June 6, 2009Stan GreenbergMary MatalinDispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Ehud Barak, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, Nelson Mandela
June 13, 2009Tierney CahillEleanor Holmes NortonMs. Cahill for Congress: One Fearless Teacher, Her Sixth-Grade Class, and the Election That Changed Their Lives Forever
June 20, 2009Eduardo GaleanoJohn DingesMirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
June 29, 2009Nicholas SchmidleRalph PetersTo Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
July 4, 2009Wangari MaathaiNicole LeeThe Challenge for Africa
July 18, 2009Edward HumesMatthew KahnEco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
July 13, 2009Joe ScarboroughPeggy NoonanThe Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise
July 25, 2009Harry SteinStefan Kanfer"I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican:" A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous
August 1, 2009Mia BayElsa Barkley BrownTo Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells
August 10, 2009Ben MezrichA.J. JacobsThe Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook -- A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal Facebook
August 17, 2009Brian JenningsMonica CrowleyCensorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio
August 22, 2009John McCaslinKeith StroupWeed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine
August 31, 2009Peter CarlsonSergei KhrushchevK Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the United States
September 6, 2009Tony ZinniJulius BectonLeading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom
September 12, 2009Kathryn OlmstedBarry GlassnerReal Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
September 19, 2009Jon KrakauerSean NaylorWhere Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman Pat Tillman
September 28, 2009Kimberly KaganPete HegsethThe Surge: A Military History Iraq War troop surge of 2007
October 3, 2009Chris HedgesRon SuskindEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
October 10, 2009Tom RidgeMimi HallThe Test of Our Times: America Under Siege and How We Can Be Safe Again
October 24, 2009Michael RosenJohn Hope ByrantWhat Else but Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse
October 25, 2009Taylor BranchJohn HarrisThe Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President Bill Clinton
November 1, 2009John FlemingAmity ShlaesThe Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War Victor Kravchenko, Jan Valtin, Whittaker Chambers, Arthur Koestler
November 7, 2009Harry MacLeanRichard HoworthThe Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption James Ford Seale
November 15, 2009Peter SchweizerMichele BachmannArchitects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy -- and How They Will Do It Again if No One Stops Them
November 22, 2009Nomi PrinsBernie SandersIt Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street Financial crisis of 2007–2008
November 29, 2009Wil HaygoodDave ZirinSweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson Sugar Ray Robinson
December 5, 2009Steven Levitt and Stephen DubnerEzra KleinSuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
December 14, 2009Joan BiskupicTed OlsonAmerican Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Antonin Scalia
December 19, 2009Greg MortensonMary Bono MackStones into Schools
December 26, 2009Jane GoodallJohn NielsenHope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink Endangered species

References

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