List of After Words interviews first aired in 2015

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 3, 2015Chuck ToddDan BalzThe Stranger: Barack Obama in the White HousePresidency of Barack ObamaJanuary 10, 2015Cass SunsteinSusan CainWiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups SmarterGroup decision-makingJanuary 17, 2015Bret StephensBob MinzesheimerAmerica in RetreatForeign policy of the United StatesJanuary 24, 2015Mike HuckabeeS. E. CuppGod, Guns, Grits, and GravyJanuary 31, 2015April RyanAnn ComptonThe Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in AmericaFebruary 7, 2015Toby HarndenDan LamotheDead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in AfghanistanFebruary 14, 2015David AxelrodDavid FrumBeliever: My Forty Years in PoliticsFebruary 21, 2015Wes MooreWendy SpencerThe Work: My Search for a Life That MattersFebruary 28, 2015Allan RyskindTucker CarlsonHollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters - Agents of Stalin, Allies of HitlerMarch 7, 2015David MorrisKayla WilliamsThe Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderPosttraumatic stress disorderMarch 14, 2015William BennettJonah GoldbergGoing to Pot: Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana is Harming AmericaCannabis in the United StatesMarch 21, 2015Eric FonerEdna Greene MedfordGateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground RailroadThe Underground RailroadMarch 28, 2015Peter WallisonSudeep ReddyHidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen AgainApril 4, 2015Cornel WestKhalil Gibran MuhammadThe Radical KingMartin Luther King Jr.April 11, 2015Grover NorquistStan Veuger End the IRS Before It Ends Us: How to Restore a Low Tax, High Growth, Wealthy AmericaInternal Revenue ServiceApril 18, 2015Elaine Lowry BryePatricia KimeBe Safe, Love Mom: A Military Mom’s Stories of Courage, Comfort, and Surviving Life on the HomefrontApril 25, 2015Colman McCarthyMedea BenjaminTeaching PeaceMay 2, 2015Peter SlevinCassandra ClaytonMichelle Obama: A LifeMichelle ObamaMay 9, 2015Jon KrakauerKatie BakerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College TownMay 16, 2015Caroline FredricksonSabrina SchaefferUnder the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run OverMay 23, 2015Rosabeth Moss KanterRodney SlaterMove: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the LeadTransportation in the United StatesMay 30, 2015Kenji YoshinoDavid SavageSpeak Now: Marriage Equality on TrialHollingsworth v. PerryJune 6, 2015Joseph StiglitzHeather McGheeThe Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About ThemJune 13, 2015Kirsten PowersSharyl AttkissonThe Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free SpeechJune 20, 2015Mona EltahawyRangita de Silva de AlwisHeadscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs A Sexual RevolutionJune 27, 2015Nelson DenisTeresite LevyWar Against All Puerto RicansJuly 4, 2015Carol BerkinMaeva MarcusThe Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's LibertiesThe U.S. Bill of RightsJuly 11, 2015Charles ShieldsNeely TuckerMockingbirdHarper LeeJuly 18, 2015Andrea MaysJeffery DeaverThe Millionaire and the BardHenry Clay Folger, Shakespeare's First FolioJuly 25, 2015Ralph NaderAndy ShallalReturn to SenderAugust 1, 2015Michael TannerMaya MacGuineasGoing for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement CrisisAugust 8, 2015Charles MurrayJared BernsteinBy the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without PermissionAugust 15, 2015Claire McCaskillSusan GlasserPlenty LadylikeAugust 22, 2015Arthur BrooksMichael SteeleThe Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier and More Prosperous AmericaAugust 29, 2015Dan-el Padilla PeraltaLiz RobbinsUndocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League September 5, 2015Kathryn EdinGwen Moore$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in AmericaSeptember 12, 2015Amy KlobucharSusan PageThe Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the HeartlandSeptember 19, 2015Joy-Ann ReidMichael HigginbothamFracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons, and the Racial DivideSeptember 26, 2015Bill O'ReillyBay BuchananKilling Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a PresidencyAttempted assassination of Ronald ReaganOctober 3, 2015Martha KumarMack McLartyBefore the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of PowerOctober 10, 2015David GregorySally QuinnHow's Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual JourneyOctober 17, 2015Bethany McLeanJoe LightShaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage GiantsFannie Mae and Freddie MacOctober 24, 2015John DanforthTim HutchinsonThe Relevance of ReligionOctober 31, 2015Sean NaylorDana PriestRelentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations CommandJoint Special Operations CommandNovember 7, 2015Ben BernankeSherrod BrownThe Courage to ActNovember 14, 2015Patrick KennedyJim McDermottA Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and AddictionNovember 21, 2015Niall FergusonCarla Anne RobbinsKissinger, 1923-1968: The IdealistHenry KissingerNovember 28, 2015Roberta KaplanZoe TillmanThen Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMAUnited States v. WindsorDecember 5, 2015Gilbert M. GaulTom McMillenBillion-Dollar BallDecember 12, 2015Theresa BrownDebra HatmakerThe Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' LivesDecember 19, 2015Sir Michael MarmotChristine SowThe Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal WorldDecember 26, 2015Darcy OlsenKimberly LeonardThe Right to Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Lifesaving Treatments They Need

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