List of After Words interviews first aired in 2016

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, 2016 Karl Rove Richard Brookhiser The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters William McKinley, William McKinley presidential campaign, 1896, 1896 United States presidential election
January 9, 2016 James Rosen Dana Perino Cheney One on One: A Candid Conversation with America’s Most Controversial Statesman Dick Cheney
January 16, 2016 Mei Fong Evan Osnos One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment One-child policy
January 23, 2016 Tom Daschle and Trent Lott J.C. Watts Crisis Point: Why We Must-and How We Can-Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America
January 30, 2016 Eddie Glaude Marc Morial Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
February 6, 2016 Matt Lewis S. E. Cupp Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win Elections (and How It Can Reclaim Its Conservative Roots)
February 13, 2016 Barry Latzer Samuel Bieler The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America
February 20, 2016 Cory Booker Robert A. George United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
February 27, 2016 Michael Hayden James Woolsey Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
March 5, 2016 E. J. Dionne Juan Williams Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond
March 12, 2016 Michael Eric Dyson April Ryan The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
March 19, 2016 John Yoo Victoria Toensing Liberty’s Nemesis: The Unchecked Expansion of the State
March 26, 2016 Nancy Cohen Kim Azzarelli Breakthrough: The Making of America's First Woman President
April 2, 2016 Mary Frances Berry Spencer Overton Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
April 9, 2016 J.C. Watts Kevin Merida Dig Deep: 7 Truths to Finding Strength Within
April 16, 2016 Ellen Malcolm Maxine Waters When Women Win: Emily’s List and the Rise of Women in American Politics EMILY's list
April 23, 2016 Sue Klebold Mary Giliberti A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
April 30, 2016 Steve Case John Delaney The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future
May 7, 2016 Peter Marks Bethany McLean Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America Bob Benmosche, American International Group
May 14, 2016 Don Watkins Diana Furchtgott-Roth Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
May 21, 2016 Shaka Senghor Paul Butler Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison
May 28, 2016 Tamara Draut Amy Goodman Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America
June 4, 2016 Mitch McConnell Lamar Alexander The Long Game: A Memoir
June 11, 2016 Barbara Boxer Amy Klobuchar The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life
June 18, 2016 Fawaz Gerges Geneive Abdo ISIS: A History Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
June 25, 2016 Pamela Haag William Doyle The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
July 2, 2016 Nathalia Holt Lisa Rand Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
July 9, 2016 Heather Mac Donald Delores Jones-Brown The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
July 16, 2016 Darrell Issa Tom Davis Watchdog: The Real Stories Behind the Headlines from the Congressman Who Exposed Washington’s Biggest Scandals
July 23, 2016 Karen Greenberg Ali Soufan Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State
July 30, 2016 Eric Fair Raha Wala Consequence: A Memoir Abu Ghraib prison, Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
August 6, 2016 Kimberley Strassel Ginni Thomas The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech
August 13, 2016 Dana Loesch Guy Benson Flyover Nation: You Can’t Run a Country You’ve Never Been To
August 20, 2016 Seymour Hersh Bob Dreyfuss The Killing of Osama bin Laden Death of Osama bin Laden
August 27, 2016 Ann Coulter Tucker Carlson In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016
September 3, 2016 Rosa Brooks Kathleen Hicks How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
September 10, 2016 Alberto Gonzales Brent Kendall True Faith and Allegiance: A Story of Service and Sacrifice in War and Peace
September 17, 2016 Mark Thompson Arianna Huffington Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
September 24, 2016 Dave Brat Ed Gillespie American Underdog: Proof That Principles Matter
October 1, 2016 John Dickerson Clarence Page Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History
October 8, 2016 Mary Thompson-Jones Paula Dobriansky To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect
October 15, 2016 Sara Goldrick-Rab Lisa Coico Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
October 22, 2016 Julissa Arce Doris Meissner My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
October 29, 2016 Tim Wu Jon Fortt The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
November 5, 2016 Edward Conard N. Gregory Mankiw The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
November 12, 2016 George Borjas Edward Alden We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative
November 19, 2016 Sebastian Mallaby Alice Rivlin The Man who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan
November 26, 2016 Gary Younge Juleyka Lantigua-Williams Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
December 3, 2016 George Mitchell Jane Harman A Path to Peace: A Brief History of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations and a Way Forward in the Middle East Israeli–Palestinian peace process
December 10, 2016 Eugene Soltes Robert Khuzami Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal White-collar crime
December 17, 2016 Jason Brennan David Boaz Against Democracy
December 24, 2016 Ellen Silbergeld Dan Glickman Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers
December 31, 2016 Joann Lublin Jay Newton-Small Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World

References

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