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.

First air date(Links to video)Interviewee(s)Interviewer(s)BookTopic of interview / CommentsJanuary 2, 2010Gail CollinsGwen IfillWhen Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present January 9, 2010David WesselAlice RivlinIn Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic Ben Bernanke, 2008 financial crisisJanuary 16, 2010Peniel JosephKevin MeridaDark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama January 23, 2010Thomas FlemingBarbara MitnickThe Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers Founding Fathers of the United StatesJanuary 30, 2010John YooVictoria ToensingCrisis and Command February 6, 2010Joseph StiglitzLori WallachFreefall2008 financial crisisFebruary 13, 2010Garry WillsTom BlantonBomb Power February 20, 2010Ken GormleyGreg CraigThe Death of American Virtue: Clinton v. Starr Impeachment of Bill ClintonFebruary 27, 2010George PackerChristopher HitchensFacing Unpleasant Facts and All Art Is Propaganda George OrwellMarch 13, 2010Bill and Janet CohenJohn LewisRace & Reconciliation March 21, 2010Diane RavitchValerie StraussThe Death and Life of the Great American School System March 27, 2010Bill BennettWalter IsaacsonA Century Turns April 3, 2010Jack MatlockDimitri SimesSuperpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - and How to Return to Reality April 10, 2010Deborah AmosMohamad BazziEclipse of the Sunnis Sunni IslamApril 17, 2010Harry MarkopolosNicole GelinasNo One Would Listen Madoff investment scandalApril 24, 2010Mark PerryLarry JohnsonTalking to Terrorists May 1, 2010Elaine TylerChristina Hoff SommersAmerica and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and LiberationThe birth control pill, Margaret Sanger, Katharine McCormickMay 8, 2010Piper KermanTed ConoverOrange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison May 15, 2010John KiriakouFrederick HitzThe Reluctant Spy May 22, 2010Michael GrahamJonathan KarlThat's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom The Tea Party movementMay 29, 2010Sebastian JungerPaul RieckhoffWar 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan, 2007-2008May 31, 2010Mitt RomneyJuan WilliamsNo Apology: The Case for American Greatness June 5, 2010Stephen ProtheroSally QuinnGod is Not One Conceptions of GodJune 13, 2010Gary RivlinHeather Mac DonaldBroke USA June 26, 2010Jere Van DykGeorge PackerCaptive: My Time As A Prisoner of the Taliban July 10, 2010Andrew NapolitanoRalph NaderLies the Government Told You July 11, 2010Arthur Brooks and Strobe TalbottThe 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, 2010Alan BrinkleySam TanenhausThe Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century Henry LuceJuly 24, 2010Ayaan Hirsi AliPaula DobrianskyNomad July 31, 2010Carl CannonPaul ClementCircle of Greed William LerachAugust 7, 2010Richard WhittleJohn PikeThe Dream Machine V-22 OspreyAugust 14, 2010Peter BeinartMike AllenThe Icarus Syndrome August 21, 2010Michael BelfioreJoanne CarneyThe Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs DARPAAugust 28, 2010Sebastian MallabyGillian TettMore Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite Hedge fundsSeptember 4, 2010David KilcullenLawrence WilkersonCounterinsurgency CounterinsurgencySeptember 11, 2010Arianna HuffingtonMaria BartiromoThird World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream September 18, 2010Gabriel SchoenfeldMichael MukaseyNecessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law September 27, 2010Louise KnightDan MoshenbergJane Addams: Spirit in Action Jane AddamsOctober 3, 2010James SwansonEdna Greene MedfordBloody Crimes Jefferson Davis, Funeral and burial of Abraham LincolnOctober 9, 2010Hooman MajdHamid DabashiThe Ayatollah's Democracy Politics of IranOctober 16, 2010Maria BartiromoYves SmithThe Weekend That Changed Wall Street October 23, 2010Dinesh D'SouzaJonathan AlterThe Roots of Obama's Rage November 1, 2010Scott Rasmussen and Doug SchoenAmity ShlaesMad as Hell Tea Party movementNovember 14, 2010Nigel HamiltonRichard Norton SmithAmerican Caesars November 20, 2010John DowerSanho TreeCultures of War November 21, 2010Ron ChristieJanet Langhart CohenActing White November 28, 2010James ZogbyBarbara SlavinArab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why it Matters December 11, 2010Noah FeldmanDahlia LithwickScorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, William O. DouglasDecember 12, 2010Jimmy CarterDoug BrinkleyWhite House Diary December 18, 2010Hugh SheltonWilliam CohenWithout Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior December 27, 2010Jane SmileyCecilia KangThe Man Who Invented the Computer John Vincent Atanasoff

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