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) Book Topic of interview / Comments
January 3, 2009 Jay Parini Sam Tanenhaus Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America
January 11, 2009 Christopher Horner Jed Babbin Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
January 18, 2009 Robert Bork Eugene Meyer A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments
January 24, 2009 David Sanger Bob Deans The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
January 31, 2009 Gwen Ifill David Brooks The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
February 7, 2009 Bryan Burrough Joe Barton The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes H.L. Hunt, Roy Cullen, Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison
February 14, 2009 Philip Howard Joan Biskupic Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law
February 21, 2009 Roger L. Simon Armstrong Williams Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
February 28, 2009 Azar Nafisi Trita Parsi Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
March 14, 2009 Ann Coulter Michelle Easton Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
March 21, 2009 Felix Rohatyn Greg Ip Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now
April 4, 2009 Ivan Eland Ron Paul Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
April 11, 2009 Neal Bascomb Elizabeth Holtzman Hunting 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, 2009 Paul Escott Jane Turner Censer "What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America
April 25, 2009 Alan Beattie Patrice Hill False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World Economic history of the world
May 2, 2009 Liaquat Ahamed Gerald Seib Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Benjamin Strong, Jr., Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman, Émile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht
May 9, 2009 Frederick Hitz Peter Earnest Why Spy?: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty
May 14, 2009 William Cohan Deborah Solomon House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street Bear Stearns
May 16, 2009 Mark Rudd Ishmael Reed Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen Students for a Democratic Society, Weather Underground
May 23, 2009 Elaine Showalter Sara Nelson A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
May 30, 2009 Bethany Moreton Nancy MacLean To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise Wal-Mart
June 6, 2009 Stan Greenberg Mary Matalin Dispatches 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, 2009 Tierney Cahill Eleanor Holmes Norton Ms. Cahill for Congress: One Fearless Teacher, Her Sixth-Grade Class, and the Election That Changed Their Lives Forever
June 20, 2009 Eduardo Galeano John Dinges Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
June 29, 2009 Nicholas Schmidle Ralph Peters To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
July 4, 2009 Wangari Maathai Nicole Lee The Challenge for Africa
July 18, 2009 Edward Humes Matthew Kahn Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
July 13, 2009 Joe Scarborough Peggy Noonan The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise
July 25, 2009 Harry Stein Stefan 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, 2009 Mia Bay Elsa Barkley Brown To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells
August 10, 2009 Ben Mezrich A.J. Jacobs The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook -- A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal Facebook
August 17, 2009 Brian Jennings Monica Crowley Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio
August 22, 2009 John McCaslin Keith Stroup Weed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine
August 31, 2009 Peter Carlson Sergei Khrushchev K 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, 2009 Tony Zinni Julius Becton Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom
September 12, 2009 Kathryn Olmsted Barry Glassner Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
September 19, 2009 Jon Krakauer Sean Naylor Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman Pat Tillman
September 28, 2009 Kimberly Kagan Pete Hegseth The Surge: A Military History Iraq War troop surge of 2007
October 3, 2009 Chris Hedges Ron Suskind Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
October 10, 2009 Tom Ridge Mimi Hall The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege and How We Can Be Safe Again
October 24, 2009 Michael Rosen John Hope Byrant What Else but Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse
October 25, 2009 Taylor Branch John Harris The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President Bill Clinton
November 1, 2009 John Fleming Amity Shlaes The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War Victor Kravchenko, Jan Valtin, Whittaker Chambers, Arthur Koestler
November 7, 2009 Harry MacLean Richard Howorth The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption James Ford Seale
November 15, 2009 Peter Schweizer Michele Bachmann Architects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy -- and How They Will Do It Again if No One Stops Them
November 22, 2009 Nomi Prins Bernie Sanders It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street Financial crisis of 2007–2008
November 29, 2009 Wil Haygood Dave Zirin Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson Sugar Ray Robinson
December 5, 2009 Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Ezra Klein SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
December 14, 2009 Joan Biskupic Ted Olson American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Antonin Scalia
December 19, 2009 Greg Mortenson Mary Bono Mack Stones into Schools
December 26, 2009 Jane Goodall John Nielsen Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink Endangered species

References

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