List of After Words interviews first aired in 2011

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, 2011 William Hartung Pierre Sprey Prophets of War Lockheed Martin
January 8, 2011 Eduardo Porter Daniel Gross The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do
January 17, 2011 Clarence Jones Herb Boyd Behind the Dream March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, The "I Have a Dream" speech
January 22, 2011 Bill Kristol David Brooks The Neoconservative Persuasion Bill Kristol discusses The Neoconservative Persuasion by his late father Irving Kristol, for which he (Bill) wrote the foreword.
January 29, 2011 Peter Bergen Max Boot The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda War on Terror
February 5, 2011 Michael Reagan John Avlon The New Reagan Revolution
February 14, 2011 George Friedman Susan Glasser The Next Decade
February 19, 2011 Carole Simpson Nia-Malika Henderson NewsLady
February 26, 2011 Susan Jacoby Sylvia Smith Never Say Die
March 5, 2011 Rubin Carter Juan Williams Eye of the Hurricane
March 12, 2011 Peter Firstbrook Dinesh D'Souza The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family Family of Barack Obama
March 19, 2011 Dambisa Moyo Dan Mitchell How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - and the Stark Choices Ahead
March 26, 2011 Leah McGrath Goodman Jerry DiColo The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market New York Mercantile Exchange
April 3, 2011 Ken Walsh Julianne Malveaux Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House
April 9, 2011 Jeff Greenfield Ted Koppel Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Ford, Carter, Reagan
April 16, 2011 Kevin Williamson John Podhoretz The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism Socialism
April 23, 2011 Edward Lengel Peter Henriques Inventing George Washington George Washington
April 30, 2011 Peter Godwin Nicole Lee The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe
May 7, 2011 Andrew Breitbart Armstrong Williams Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!
May 14, 2011 William Cohan Patrice Hill Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World Goldman Sachs
May 21, 2011 Frederick Kempe Angela Stent Berlin 1961 Berlin Crisis of 1961
May 28, 2011 Janny Scott Major Garrett A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother Ann Dunham
June 4, 2011 Michael Totten Richard Murphy The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel Cedar Revolution, 2006 Lebanon War
June 13, 2011 Henry Kissinger Monica Crowley On China Sino-American relations
June 18, 2011 James Gleick Frank Rose The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Information, Information Age
June 25, 2011 Erick Stakelbeck Fred Grandy The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You about the Islamic Threat
July 2, 2011 Eli Pariser Clay Shirky The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
July 9, 2011 Charles Hill David Ignatius Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism Islam
July 16, 2011 Jane Blair Loretta Sanchez Hesitation Kills: A Female Marine Officer's Combat Experience in Iraq
July 23, 2011 Sally Jacobs Ken Walsh The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father Barack Obama, Sr.
July 30, 2011 Joby Warrick Yochi Dreazen The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
August 7, 2011 Amanda Foreman Eric Foner A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War Britain in the American Civil War
August 13, 2011 Jay Bahadur Clifford May The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World Piracy in Somalia
August 20, 2011 Steven Brill Diane Ravitch Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
August 27, 2011 Ronald Bishop Deborah Tannen More: The Vanishing of Scale in an Over-the-Top Nation
September 4, 2011 Randall Kennedy April Ryan The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
September 10, 2011 Dana Priest Douglas Feith Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State
September 17, 2011 Sylvia Nasar Gillian Tett Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius History of economic thought
September 24, 2011 Jim Lehrer Gloria Borger Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates from Kennedy-Nixon to McCain-Obama United States presidential election debates
October 1, 2011 Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith Anne Gearan The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
October 8, 2011 Susan Herman Viet Dinh Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy
October 17, 2011 Daniel Yergin Dina Cappiello The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World Energy industry
October 22, 2011 Nicholas Wapshott Matthew Bishop Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek
October 29, 2011 Bill Vlasic Matt Blunt Once Upon a Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America's Big Three Automakers - GM, Ford, and Chrysler General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010
November 5, 2011 Mary Gabriel Bertell Ollman Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution Karl Marx, Jenny von Westphalen
November 14, 2011 Corey Robin S.E. Cupp The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Conservatism
November 21, 2011 Pat Buchanan Ralph Nader Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
November 26, 2011 Clifton Truman Daniel Margaret Hoover Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman 1919-1943 Bess Truman, Harry Truman
December 3, 2011 Max Hastings Toby Harnden Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 World War II
December 10, 2011 Niall Ferguson Susan Jacoby Civilization: The West and the Rest
December 17, 2011 Robert Guest Cecilia Kang Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism
December 24, 2011 Conor O'Clery Thomas Blanton Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union
December 31, 2011 Michael Gazzaniga Sally Satel Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain Neuroscience

References

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