List of After Words interviews first aired in 2006

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)	Book	Topic of interview / Comments
January 7, 2006	Nicholas Basbanes	David Kipen	Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
January 14, 2006	James Yee	Rowan Scarborough	For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
January 21, 2006	Paul Bremer	Jim Hoagland	My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
January 28, 2006	Fred Barnes	Peter Beinart	Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush	Presidency of George W. Bush
February 4, 2006	Kate O'Beirne	Jodi Enda	Women Who Make the World Worse: And How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports
February 11, 2006	David Rieff	Wesley Clark	At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention
February 18, 2006	James McManus	T.R. Reid	Physical: An American Checkup
February 25, 2006	Bruce Bartlett	James Pinkerton	Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy	George W. Bush
March 4, 2006	David Vise	Lamar Smith	The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time	Google, History of Google
March 11, 2006	Torie Clarke	Pamela Hess	Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game
March 18, 2006	Harvey Mansfield	Naomi Wolf	Manliness
March 25, 2006	Kevin Phillips	Grover Norquist	American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
April 1, 2006	Michael Mandelbaum	Jacqueline Grapin	The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the 21st Century
April 8, 2006	Matthew Bogdanos	Angela M.H. Schuster	Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures
April 15, 2006	John Tayman	Ed Case	The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai	Kalaupapa, Hawaii
April 22, 2006	Julia Sweig	Mark Falcoff	Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century
April 29, 2006	Joe Klein	Walter Shapiro	Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid
May 6, 2006	Juliet Eilperin	Richard Cohen	Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives
May 13, 2006	Madeleine Albright	Georgie Anne Geyer	The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs
May 20, 2006	John Kasich	Gene Sperling	Stand for Something: The Battle for America's Soul
May 27, 2006	Richard Brookhiser	John Splaine	What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers
June 3, 2006	Alvin Toffler	Newt Gingrich	Revolutionary Wealth
June 10, 2006	Frank Schaeffer	Kristin Henderson	AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service and How It Hurts Our Country
June 17, 2006	Andrew Kohut	Brooks Jackson	America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked
June 24, 2006	Mark Smith	Nan Aron	Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts
July 1, 2006	Gordon Wood	Richard Norton Smith	Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different	Founding Fathers of the United States
July 8, 2006	Nick Bryant	Joe Leonard	The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality	John F. Kennedy and civil rights
July 15, 2006	Peter Beinart	Martin Sieff	The Good Fight: Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again
July 22, 2006	Simon Schama	Edna Medford	Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
July 29, 2006	Thomas Ricks	Jeffrey McCausland	Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq	Iraq War
August 5, 2006	Tom Tancredo	Anne Mulkern	In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security
August 12, 2006	Juan Williams	Michael Eric Dyson	Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure that Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do about It
August 20, 2006	Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton	Marvin Kalb	Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission	9/11 Commission
August 26, 2006	Robert Block	James Lee Witt	Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security	Criticism of the government response to Hurricane Katrina
September 2, 2006	Rahm Emanuel	Michael Tackett	The Plan: Big Ideas for America
September 9, 2006	Lawrence Wright	James Zogby	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11	al-Qaeda
September 16, 2006	Joe Mathews	Rachel Smolkin	The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy	Political career of Arnold Schwarzenegger
September 23, 2006	Patrick Hynes	Richard Cizik	In Defense of the Religious Right: Why Conservative Christians Are the Lifeblood of the Republican Party and Why That Terrifies the Democrats
September 30, 2012	George Soros	Ted Halstead	The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror
October 7, 2006	Lawrence Otis Graham	Adam Clayton Powell III	The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty	Blanche Bruce
October 14, 2006	John Danforth	Charles C. Haynes	Faith and Politics: How the 'Moral Values' Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together
October 21, 2006	Peter Stone	Charles Lewis	Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington	Jack Abramoff, Jack Abramoff scandals
October 28, 2006	Ray Takeyh	Robert Litwak	Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic	Iran–United States relations
November 4, 2006	Mark Updegrove	Mark Pachter	Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House
November 11, 2006	Nicholas Lemann	Herman Belz	Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War	Reconstruction Era
November 18, 2006	John O'Sullivan	Martin Walker	The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World	Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher
November 25, 2006	William Middendorf	David Frum	A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement	Barry Goldwater presidential campaign, 1964
December 3, 2006	Karen DeYoung	Charles "Casey" Brower	Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell	Colin Powell
December 9, 2006	Larry Kahaner	Peter Singer	AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War	AK-47
December 16, 2006	Ali Abunimah	Ron Kampeas	One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse	Israeli–Palestinian conflict
December 23, 2006	Alex Kershaw	Jack Pulwers	The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain	Non-British personnel in the RAF during the Battle of Britain, Eagle Squadrons
December 30, 2006	David Cannadine	Leslie Schweitzer	Mellon: An American Life	Andrew Mellon