List of After Words interviews first aired in 2010

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 2, 2010 Gail Collins Gwen Ifill When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
January 9, 2010 David Wessel Alice Rivlin In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic Ben Bernanke, Financial crisis of 2007–2008
January 16, 2010 Peniel Joseph Kevin Merida Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
January 23, 2010 Thomas Fleming Barbara Mitnick The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers Founding Fathers of the United States
January 30, 2010 John Yoo Victoria Toensing Crisis and Command
February 6, 2010 Joseph Stiglitz Lori Wallach Freefall Financial crisis of 2007–2008
February 13, 2010 Garry Wills Tom Blanton Bomb Power
February 20, 2010 Ken Gormley Greg Craig The Death of American Virtue: Clinton v. Starr Impeachment of Bill Clinton
February 27, 2010 George Packer Christopher Hitchens Facing Unpleasant Facts and All Art Is Propaganda George Orwell
March 13, 2010 Bill and Janet Cohen John Lewis Race & Reconciliation
March 21, 2010 Diane Ravitch Valerie Strauss The Death and Life of the Great American School System
March 27, 2010 Bill Bennett Walter Isaacson A Century Turns
April 3, 2010 Jack Matlock Dimitri Simes Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - and How to Return to Reality
April 10, 2010 Deborah Amos Mohamad Bazzi Eclipse of the Sunnis Sunni Islam
April 17, 2010 Harry Markopolos Nicole Gelinas No One Would Listen Madoff investment scandal
April 24, 2010 Mark Perry Larry Johnson Talking to Terrorists
May 1, 2010 Elaine Tyler Christina Hoff Sommers America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation The birth control pill, Margaret Sanger, Katharine McCormick
May 8, 2010 Piper Kerman Ted Conover Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
May 15, 2010 John Kiriakou Frederick Hitz The Reluctant Spy
May 22, 2010 Michael Graham Jonathan Karl That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom The Tea Party movement
May 29, 2010 Sebastian Junger Paul Rieckhoff War 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan, 2007-2008
May 31, 2010 Mitt Romney Juan Williams No Apology: The Case for American Greatness
June 5, 2010 Stephen Prothero Sally Quinn God is Not One Conceptions of God
June 13, 2010 Gary Rivlin Heather Mac Donald Broke USA
June 26, 2010 Jere Van Dyk George Packer Captive: My Time As A Prisoner of the Taliban
July 10, 2010 Andrew Napolitano Ralph Nader Lies the Government Told You
July 11, 2010 Arthur Brooks and Strobe Talbott The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future (by Brooks) and Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (by Talbott) Brooks and Talbott interviewed each other about the other's book.
July 17, 2010 Alan Brinkley Sam Tanenhaus The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century Henry Luce
July 24, 2010 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Paula Dobriansky Nomad
July 31, 2010 Carl Cannon Paul Clement Circle of Greed William Lerach
August 7, 2010 Richard Whittle John Pike The Dream Machine V-22 Osprey
August 14, 2010 Peter Beinart Mike Allen The Icarus Syndrome
August 21, 2010 Michael Belfiore Joanne Carney The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs DARPA
August 28, 2010 Sebastian Mallaby Gillian Tett More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite Hedge funds
September 4, 2010 David Kilcullen Lawrence Wilkerson Counterinsurgency Counterinsurgency
September 11, 2010 Arianna Huffington Maria Bartiromo Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
September 18, 2010 Gabriel Schoenfeld Michael Mukasey Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law
September 27, 2010 Louise Knight Dan Moshenberg Jane Addams: Spirit in Action Jane Addams
October 3, 2010 James Swanson Edna Greene Medford Bloody Crimes Jefferson Davis, Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln
October 9, 2010 Hooman Majd Hamid Dabashi The Ayatollah's Democracy Politics of Iran
October 16, 2010 Maria Bartiromo Yves Smith The Weekend That Changed Wall Street
October 23, 2010 Dinesh D'Souza Jonathan Alter The Roots of Obama's Rage
November 1, 2010 Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen Amity Shlaes Mad as Hell Tea Party movement
November 14, 2010 Nigel Hamilton Richard Norton Smith American Caesars
November 20, 2010 John Dower Sanho Tree Cultures of War
November 21, 2010 Ron Christie Janet Langhart Cohen Acting White
November 28, 2010 James Zogby Barbara Slavin Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why it Matters
December 11, 2010 Noah Feldman Dahlia Lithwick Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, William O. Douglas
December 12, 2010 Jimmy Carter Doug Brinkley White House Diary
December 18, 2010 Hugh Shelton William Cohen Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
December 27, 2010 Jane Smiley Cecilia Kang The Man Who Invented the Computer John Vincent Atanasoff

References

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