List of After Words interviews first aired in 2007

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.

First air date(Links to video)Interviewee(s)Interviewer(s)BookTopic of interview / CommentsJanuary 6, 2007Anthony WellerNorman HatchFirst into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiJanuary 13, 2007Gabor BorittJames SwansonThe Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows The Gettysburg AddressJanuary 20, 2007Joel L. FleishmanElizabeth BorisThe Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World January 27, 2007Frank LuntzJohn McCaslinWords That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear February 3, 2007Eric KlinenbergBen ScottFighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media February 10, 2007Brian DohertyDoug BandowRadicals for Capitalism: The Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement Libertarianism in the United StatesFebruary 17, 2007John NaisbittGeorge GilderMind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future February 24, 2007Edward BrookeEleanor Holmes NortonBridging the Divide: My Life March 3, 2007John Patrick DigginsGeorge WillRonald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of HistoryRonald ReaganMarch 10, 2007Martha RaddatzThomas HammesThe Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family Siege of Sadr CityMarch 17, 2007John NewhouseWalter BoyneBoeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business Competition between Airbus and BoeingMarch 24, 2007Fred Charles IkleJohn LehmanAnnihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations April 7, 2007Bill BradleyJames LeachThe New American Story April 14, 2007Ali AllawiRoland FlaminiThe Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace History of Iraq (2003–2011)April 21, 2007David PietruszaAnn Compton1920: The Year of the Six Presidents 1920 United States presidential electionApril 28, 2007Michael WallisRoy BluntBilly the Kid: The Endless Ride Billy the KidMay 5, 2007Jabari AsimBakari KitwanaThe N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why The word "nigger"May 12, 2007Robert McGovernJack KempAll American: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq May 19, 2007Rod PaigeKathy KielyThe War Against Hope: How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public Education May 26, 2007Charles RangelJim MillsAnd I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress June 2, 2007Michael BeschlossAlexis SimendingerPresidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989 June 9, 2007Kenneth AckermanJoan BiskupicYoung J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties J. Edgar Hoover; 1919 United States anarchist bombings; The First Red ScareJune 16, 2007Ted GupMichael IsikoffNation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life June 24, 2007Amity ShlaesNick GillespieThe Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression The Great DepressionJune 30, 2007Seth LererMichael DirdaInventing English: A Portable History of the Language History of the English languageJuly 7, 2007Beverly Daniel TatumRoger WilkinsCan We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation July 15, 2007Tim WeinerDavid IgnatiusLegacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA History of the Central Intelligence AgencyJuly 21, 2007Larry BermanRobert KaiserPerfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, 'Time' Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent Pham Xuan AnJuly 28, 2007Sally JenkinsSuzan HarjoThe Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation Glenn Scobey Warner, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle Indians football, Jim ThorpeAugust 4, 2007Connie SchultzJim Tankersley...and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man August 11, 2007Alastair CampbellGerald SeibThe Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries Premiership of Tony BlairAugust 18, 2007Stanley WeintraubMax Boot15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall - Three Generals Who Saved the American Century Dwight D. Eisenhower; Douglas MacArthur; George MarshallAugust 25, 2007Scott GantPeter PrichardWe're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age September 1, 2007Michael DuffyBob DeansThe Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House Billy GrahamSeptember 8, 2007John NaglSean NaylorThe U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual September 15, 2007Raymond IbrahimLawrence WrightThe Al Qaeda Reader al QaedaSeptember 22, 2007Nassim TalebDavid BrooksThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Black swan theorySeptember 30, 2007Norman PodhoretzCharles PeñaWorld War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism October 6, 2007Naomi KleinFranklin FoerThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism October 13, 2007Lynne CheneyNancy GibbsBlue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family October 20, 2007Naomi WolfViet DinhThe End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot October 27, 2007Barbara SlavinTrita ParsiBitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation Iran–United States relationsNovember 3, 2007Jonathan ChaitGrover NorquistThe Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics November 10, 2007Michael GersonRichard ViguerieHeroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don't) November 17, 2007Garry KasparovLeon AronHow Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom ChessNovember 25, 2007Rick AtkinsonPatrick O'DonnellThe Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943 to 1944 Italian Campaign (World War II)December 1, 2007David FrostTimothy NaftaliFrost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews The Nixon InterviewsDecember 8, 2007Ronald SpectorSteven ClemonsIn the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia Occupation of JapanDecember 15, 2007Patrick BuchananDiana WestDay of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart December 22, 2007Howard KurtzJames WarrenReality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War ABC News, NBC News, CBS NewsDecember 29, 2007Amy ChuaCullen MurphyDay of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why They Fall

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