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.

First air date(Links to video)Interviewee(s)Interviewer(s)BookTopic of interview / CommentsJanuary 2, 2011William HartungPierre SpreyProphets of WarLockheed Martin January 8, 2011Eduardo PorterDaniel GrossThe Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do January 17, 2011Clarence JonesHerb BoydBehind the DreamMarch on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, The "I Have a Dream" speechJanuary 22, 2011Bill KristolDavid BrooksThe Neoconservative PersuasionBill Kristol discusses The Neoconservative Persuasion by his late father Irving Kristol, for which he (Bill) wrote the foreword.January 29, 2011Peter BergenMax BootThe Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-QaedaWar on terrorFebruary 5, 2011Michael ReaganJohn AvlonThe New Reagan Revolution February 14, 2011George FriedmanSusan GlasserThe Next Decade February 19, 2011Carole SimpsonNia-Malika HendersonNewsLady February 26, 2011Susan JacobySylvia SmithNever Say Die March 5, 2011Rubin CarterJuan WilliamsEye of the Hurricane March 12, 2011Peter FirstbrookDinesh D'SouzaThe Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family Family of Barack ObamaMarch 19, 2011Dambisa MoyoDan MitchellHow the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - and the Stark Choices Ahead March 26, 2011Leah McGrath GoodmanJerry DiColoThe Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil MarketNew York Mercantile ExchangeApril 3, 2011Ken WalshJulianne MalveauxFamily of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House April 9, 2011Jeff GreenfieldTed KoppelThen Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Ford, Carter, Reagan April 16, 2011Kevin WilliamsonJohn PodhoretzThe Politically Incorrect Guide to SocialismSocialismApril 23, 2011Edward LengelPeter HenriquesInventing George WashingtonGeorge WashingtonApril 30, 2011Peter GodwinNicole LeeThe Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of ZimbabweRobert MugabeMay 7, 2011Andrew BreitbartArmstrong WilliamsRighteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! May 14, 2011William CohanPatrice HillMoney and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the WorldGoldman SachsMay 21, 2011Frederick KempeAngela StentBerlin 1961Berlin Crisis of 1961May 28, 2011Janny ScottMajor GarrettA Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's MotherAnn DunhamJune 4, 2011Michael TottenRichard MurphyThe Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against IsraelCedar Revolution, 2006 Lebanon WarJune 13, 2011Henry KissingerMonica CrowleyOn ChinaSino-American relationsJune 18, 2011James GleickFrank RoseThe Information: A History, a Theory, a FloodInformation, Information AgeJune 25, 2011Erick StakelbeckFred GrandyThe Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You about the Islamic Threat July 2, 2011Eli PariserClay ShirkyThe Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You July 9, 2011Charles HillDavid IgnatiusTrial of a Thousand Years: World Order and IslamismIslamJuly 16, 2011Jane BlairLoretta SanchezHesitation Kills: A Female Marine Officer's Combat Experience in Iraq July 23, 2011Sally JacobsKen WalshThe Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's FatherBarack Obama, Sr.July 30, 2011Joby WarrickYochi DreazenThe Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA August 7, 2011Amanda ForemanEric FonerA World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil WarBritain in the American Civil WarAugust 13, 2011Jay BahadurClifford MayThe Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden WorldPiracy in SomaliaAugust 20, 2011Steven BrillDiane RavitchClass Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools August 27, 2011Ronald BishopDeborah TannenMore: The Vanishing of Scale in an Over-the-Top Nation September 4, 2011Randall KennedyApril RyanThe Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency September 10, 2011Dana PriestDouglas FeithTop Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State September 17, 2011Sylvia NasarGillian TettGrand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusHistory of economic thoughtSeptember 24, 2011Jim LehrerGloria BorgerTension City: Inside the Presidential Debates from Kennedy-Nixon to McCain-ObamaUnited States presidential election debatesOctober 1, 2011Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair SmithAnne GearanThe Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics October 8, 2011Susan HermanViet DinhTaking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy October 17, 2011Daniel YerginDina CappielloThe Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern WorldEnergy industryOctober 22, 2011Nicholas WapshottMatthew BishopKeynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern EconomicsJohn Maynard Keynes, Friedrich HayekOctober 29, 2011Bill VlasicMatt BluntOnce Upon a Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America's Big Three Automakers - GM, Ford, and ChryslerGeneral Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010November 5, 2011Mary GabrielBertell OllmanLove and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a RevolutionKarl Marx, Jenny von WestphalenNovember 14, 2011Corey RobinS.E. CuppThe Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah PalinConservatismNovember 21, 2011Pat BuchananRalph NaderSuicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? November 26, 2011Clifton Truman DanielMargaret HooverDear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman 1919-1943Bess Truman, Harry TrumanDecember 3, 2011Max HastingsToby HarndenInferno: The World at War, 1939-1945World War IIDecember 10, 2011Niall FergusonSusan JacobyCivilization: The West and the Rest December 17, 2011Robert GuestCecilia KangBorderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism December 24, 2011Conor O'CleryThomas BlantonMoscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet UnionDissolution of the Soviet UnionDecember 31, 2011Michael GazzanigaSally SatelWho's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the BrainNeuroscience

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