List of After Words interviews first aired in 2008

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.[1]

First air date
(Links to video)		Interviewee(s)Interviewer(s)BookTopic of interview / Comments
January 5, 2008Susan FaludiMarie AranaThe Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
January 12, 2008Cathy WilkersonBobby RushFlying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman
January 19, 2008Kiron SkinnerMarcus MabryThe Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin
January 26, 2008Dana MilbankJuan WilliamsHomo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government
February 2, 2008Pete Earley and Sergei TretyakovPeter EarnestComrade J: The Untold Story of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War
February 10, 2008Michael LongKevin MeridaFirst Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie RobinsonJackie Robinson
February 17, 2008Mark SiegelAkbar AhmedReconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the WestMark Siegel discusses the book that he co-wrote with Benazir Bhutto, which was published several months after her assassination.
February 23, 2008Anthony LewisRonald CollinsFreedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First AmendmentFirst Amendment to the United States Constitution
March 1, 2008David Cay JohnstonMaya MacGuineasFree Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
March 9, 2008Philip ShenonMichael DuffyThe Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation9/11 Commission, Criticism of the 9/11 Commission
March 15, 2008Mark LynasGene KarpinskiSix Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter PlanetGlobal warming, Climate change
March 22, 2008Carl CannonBob SchiefferReagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential LegacyGeorge W. Bush
March 29, 2008Robin WrightAnthony CordesmanDreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
April 5, 2008Dee Dee MyersDana PerinoWhy Women Should Rule The World
April 12, 2008Roy GutmanMoisés NaímHow We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of AfghanistanOsama bin Laden, The Taliban
April 20, 2008Steve CollMichael ScheuerThe Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American CenturyBin Laden family
April 26, 2008Susan JacobyNick GillespieThe Age of American Unreason
May 3, 2008Bruce BartlettClarence PageWrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past
May 11, 2008Rupert SmithWinslow WheelerThe Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
May 18, 2008Cokie RobertsPatricia SchroederLadies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
May 24, 2008Matt TaibbiDavid CornThe Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
May 31, 2008Mary TillmanTony CapaccioBoots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat TillmanPat Tillman
June 7, 2008Robert KaganClifford MayThe Return of History and the End of Dreams
June 16, 2008Ted SorensenRobert SchlesingerCounselor: A Life at the Edge of History
June 21, 2008Andrew McCarthyHugh HewittWillful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad
June 29, 2008Tom HaydenJon WienerWritings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader
July 6, 2008J. Phillip LondonRowan ScarboroughOur Good Name: A Company's Fight to Defend Its Honor and Get the Truth Told About Abu Ghraib CACI
July 13, 2008Raj PatelEvan KleimanStuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
July 20, 2008Rajmohan GandhiAmitabh PalGandhi: The Man, His People, and the EmpireMohandas K. Gandhi
July 26, 2008Mahvish Ruksana KhanNancy SnowMy Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told MeGuantanamo Bay detention camp
August 10, 2008Patrick CockburnJames ZogbyMuqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for IraqMuqtada al-Sadr
August 17, 2008Anthony KronmanCharles MurrayEducation's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
August 24, 2008Thomas FrankJeanne CummingsThe Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
August 31, 2008Timothy LynchGary SchmittAfter Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign PolicyForeign policy of the United States
September 7, 2008Jane MayerDana PriestThe Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
September 14, 2008Christopher BuckleyCharles KeslerSupreme Courtship
September 22, 2008Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent ScowcroftDavid IgnatiusAmerica and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign PolicyForeign policy of the United States
September 28, 2008Harry ReidTom DaschleThe Good Fight
October 4, 2008Tariq AliRobert DreyfussThe Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power Pakistan–United States relations
October 11, 2008Bob SchiefferRita BraverBob Schieffer's America
October 18, 2008James BamfordJonathan LandayThe Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on AmericaNational Security Agency
October 25, 2008Andrew BacevichIvan ElandThe Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
November 1, 2008Kimberly DozierLee WoodruffBreathing Fire: Fighting to Report -- and Survive -- the War in IraqIraq War, Media coverage of the Iraq War
November 8, 2008Marian Wright EdelmanGeoffrey CanadaThe Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation
November 15, 2008Bill GertzFrank GaffneyThe Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War
November 30, 2008Rick WartzmanSusan ShillinglawObscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of WrathThe Grapes of Wrath
December 6, 2008Michael MedvedMona CharenThe 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
December 14, 2008Brian Michael JenkinsP.J. CrowleyWill Terrorists Go Nuclear?
December 21, 2008David ReynoldsRobert ReminiWaking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson
December 28, 2008Philip DrayPeniel JosephCapitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen

References
  1. Jim Milliot (10 January 2005). "BookTV Eyes More Original Programming". Publishers Weekly.
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