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 non-fiction 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.[1]
| First air date (Links to video) |
Interviewee(s) | Interviewer(s) | Book | Topic of interview / Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 4, 2020 | Steven Greenhouse | Andy Levin | Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor | |
| January 11, 2020 | Peggy Orenstein | Jared Yates Sexton | Boys and Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity | |
| January 18, 2020 | Rana Foroohar | Jon Fortt | Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US | |
| February 1, 2020 | Andrea Bernstein | Jonathan O'Connell | American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power | |
| February 8, 2020 | Howard Bryant | Etan Thomas | Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field | |
| February 15, 2020 | Sally Pipes | Buddy Carter | False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All | |
| February 22, 2020 | Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn | Jeff Merkley | Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope | |
| February 29, 2020 | Cal Thomas | Amanda Carpenter | America's Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers... and the Future of the United States | |
| March 7, 2020 | Lee Drutman | Matthew Dallek | Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America | |
| March 14, 2020 | K. T. McFarland | Danielle McLaughlin | Revolution: Trump, Washington and "We the People" | |
| March 21, 2020 | Jennifer Steinhauer | Chrissy Houlahan | The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress | |
| March 28, 2020 | Eilene Zimmerman | Leana Wen | Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy | |
| April 4, 2020 | Jonathan Karl | Mike McCurry | Front Row at the Trump Show | |
| April 11, 2020 | Michelle King | Joanne Lipman | The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work | |
| April 18, 2020 | Jim McKelvey | Cat Zakrzewski | The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time | |
| June 28, 2020 | Wes Moore | Heather McGhee | Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City | 2015 Baltimore protests |
| July 4, 2020 | Mary Jordan | Susan Page | The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump | Melania Trump |
| July 11, 2020 | Dinesh D'Souza | Benjamin Powell | United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It. | |
| July 18, 2020 | Steven Levy | Rana Foroohar | Facebook: The Inside Story | |
| July 25, 2020 | Pramila Jayapal | Jim Himes | Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman's Guide to Politics and Political Change | |
| August 1, 2020 | Michael Shellenberger | Andrew Revkin | Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All | |
| August 8, 2020 | Zerlina Maxwell | Maria Kumar | The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide | |
| August 15, 2020 | John Yoo | Mark Rozell | Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power | |
| August 22, 2020 | Debora MacKenzie | Claire Standley | COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One | |
| August 29, 2020 | Edward Ball | Sheryll Cashin | Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy | |
| September 5, 2020 | Joel Pollak | Matt Welch | Red November: Will the Country Vote Red for Trump or Red for Socialism? | |
| September 12, 2020 | Sarah Huckabee Sanders | Jennifer Jacobs | Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House | |
| September 19, 2020 | Chris Murphy | Thomas Abt | The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy | |
| September 26, 2020 | Peter Strzok | Adam Goldman | Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump | |
| October 3, 2020 | Lou Dobbs | Victor Davis Hanson | The Trump Century: How Our President Changed the Course of History Forever | |
| October 10, 2020 | John Brennan | Julian Barnes | Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad | |
| October 17, 2020 | Candace Owens | Matt Schlapp | Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation | |
| October 24, 2020 | Al Sharpton | Jonathan Capehart | Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads | |
| October 31, 2020 | Gerald Seib | Karen Tumulty | We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution | |
| November 7, 2020 | Carlos Lozada | Pamela Paul | What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era | |
| November 14, 2020 | John Fabian Witt | Lawrence Gostin | American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 | |
| November 21, 2020 | Deborah Stone | Cathy O'Neil | Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters | |
| November 28, 2020 | Sally Hubbard | David McLaughlin | Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control | |
| December 5, 2020 | Kevin Williamson | Salena Zito | Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America" | |
| December 12, 2020 | Christa Parravani | Alina Salganicoff | Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood | |
| December 19, 2020 | Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Sheri Berman | Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present | |
| December 26, 2020 |
References
edit- ^ Jim Milliot (10 January 2005). "BookTV Eyes More Original Programming". Publishers Weekly.