List of After Words interviews first aired in 2013

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 5, 2013Martin DubermanNick SerpeHoward Zinn: A Life on the LeftHoward ZinnJanuary 12, 2013Michael AustinDavid FontanaThat's Not What They Meant!: Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's Right WingFounding Fathers of the United StatesJanuary 19, 2013Clayborne CarsonJanet Langhart CohenMartin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King Jr.January 26, 2013Helaine OlenRussell WildPound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry February 2, 2013Jonathan LastD'Vera CohnWhat to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster February 9, 2013John MackeyKim StrasselConscious Capitalism February 16, 2013Sarah GarlandMarc Lamont HillDivided We Fail: The Story of an African-American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation February 23, 2013Ed WhitacreStephanie MehtaAmerican Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA March 2, 2013Moisés NaímLillian CunninghamThe End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be March 9, 2013Ken SternKen BergerWith Charity for All: Why Charities are Failing and a Better Way to Give March 16, 2013Kim GhattasJamie WeinsteinThe Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American PowerHillary ClintonMarch 23, 2013David BursteinS. E. CuppFast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World March 30, 2013Martin Clancy, Tim O'BrienKimberly TignorMurder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark Cases April 6, 2013Neil IrwinDavid WesselThe Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire April 20, 2013Benjamin WikerKrissah ThompsonWorshipping the State: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion April 27, 2013Karen HouppertJenna GreeneChasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice May 4, 2013Vali NasrJudith YapheThe Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat May 11, 2013Christian CarylSusan GlasserStrange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century May 18, 2013Diana WestAriel CohenAmerican Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character May 25, 2013Olympia SnoweA.B. StoddardFighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress June 1, 2013Charles MooreToby HarndenMargaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the FalklandsMargaret ThatcherJune 8, 2013Sally SatelDan VerganoBrainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience June 15, 2013Carl HartJuan WilliamsHigh Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society June 22, 2013Laurence LeamerNeela BanerjeeThe Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and CorruptionMassey EnergyJune 29, 2013Victor Davis HansonKimberly KaganThe Savior Generals: How Five Commanders Saved Wars that Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq July 6, 2013Michele SwersEmily PierceWomen in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the SenateWomen in the United States SenateJuly 13, 2013Mario LivioMarty MakaryBrilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe July 20, 2013Barbara PerryVincent BzdekRose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political MatriarchRose KennedyJuly 27, 2013Sheila Miyoshi JagerScott SnyderBrothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea North Korea–South Korea relationsAugust 3, 2013Susan CrawfordAndrew BlumCaptive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded AgeInternet access, Internet in the United StatesAugust 10, 2013Leigh GallagherRich BenjaminThe End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving August 17, 2013Joshua DublerJosef SorettDown in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison August 24, 2013Elizabeth GreenspanKen FeinbergBattle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center August 31, 2013Craig Steven WilderJoe MadisonEbony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities September 7, 2013Paul SabinDina CappielloThe Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon and Our Gamble over Earth's FutureSimon–Ehrlich wagerSeptember 14, 2013Mark TushnetJenna GreeneIn the Balance: Politics in the Roberts Court September 21, 2013Emily MillerCraig WhitneyEmily Gets Her Gun... But Obama Wants to Take Yours September 28, 2013Eric SchlosserLynn DavisCommand and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety October 5, 2013Bob LutzDebbie DingellIcons and Idiots: Straight Talk on Leadership October 12, 2013Luis GutierrezAlfonso AguilarStill Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill October 19, 2013Richard DawkinsSally QuinnAn Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist October 26, 2013Ann Dowsett JohnstonAnne HerronDrink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol November 2, 2013S. Lochlann JainDr. Marty MakaryMalignant: How Cancer Becomes Us November 9, 2013Husain HaqqaniLisa CurtisMagnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of MisunderstandingPakistan–United States relationsNovember 16, 2013Abbe Smith, Vida JohnsonDebbie HinesHow Can You Represent Those People? November 23, 2013Larry SabatoCraig ShirleyThe Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. KennedyAssassination of John F. KennedyNovember 30, 2013Brian KilmeadeRichard BrookhiserGeorge Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution December 7, 2013Michael KimmelHanna RosinAngry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era December 14, 2013Nicholas CarnesKim DixonWhite-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making December 21, 2013Heraldo MuñozKim BarkerGetting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of PakistanAssassination of Benazir BhuttoDecember 28, 2013Peter GottschalkMichelle BoorsteinAmerican Heretics: Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance

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