List of After Words interviews first aired in 2012
First air date ( Links to video ) Interviewee ( s ) Interviewer ( s ) Book Topic of interview / Comments
January 7 , 2012 Jack Abramoff Eliza Newlin Carney Capitol Punishment : The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America 's Most Notorious Lobbyist
January 14 , 2012 Chris Matthews Sam Donaldson Jack Kennedy : Elusive Hero John F. Kennedy
January 21 , 2012 George Nash Richard Norton Smith Freedom Betrayed : Herbert Hoover 's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath
January 28 , 2012 Zbigniew Brzezinski Michael Hirsch Strategic Vision : America and the Crisis of Global Power Foreign policy of the United States
February 4 , 2012 Deborah Scroggins Akbar Ahmed Wanted Women Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Aafia Siddiqui
February 13 , 2012 Eric Klinenberg Kim Blankenship Going Solo : The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
February 18 , 2012 Ira Shapiro Bernie Sanders The Last Great Senate : Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis
February 25 , 2012 Richard Thompson Ford Suzanne Nossel Universal Rights Down to Earth
March 3 , 2012 John Lewis Gaddis Susan Glasser George F. Kennan : An American Life George Kennan
March 12 , 2012 Maggie Anderson Krissah Thompson Our Black Year : One Family 's Quest to Buy Black in America 's Racially Divided Economy Black capitalism
March 17 , 2012 Linda Killian Michael Tomasky The Swing Vote : The Untapped Power of Independents Independent voters
March 24 , 2012 Craig Timberg Scott Evertz Tinderbox : How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
March 31 , 2012 Alain de Botton Chris Hedges Religion for Atheists : A Non-Believer 's Guide to the Uses of Religion Atheism and religion
April 9 , 2012 Liza Mundy April Ryan The Richer Sex : How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex , Love and Family
April 14 , 2012 Dick Teresi Sally Satel The Undead : Organ Harvesting , the Ice-Water Test , Beating-Heart Cadavers - How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death Ethics of Organ Transplantation
April 21 , 2012 Dale Carpenter David Savage Flagrant Conduct : The Story of Lawrence v. Texas Lawrence v. Texas
May 5 , 2012 Seth Jones Kimberly Dozier Hunting in the Shadows : The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11 Al Qaeda
May 12 , 2012 Van Jones Jackie Kucinich Rebuild the Dream
May 19 , 2012 Jay Nordlinger Matt Murray Peace , They Say : A History of the Nobel Peace Prize , The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World Nobel Peace Prize
May 28 , 2012 Victor Cha Scott Snyder The Impossible State : North Korea , Past and Future North Korea
Wikipedia list article 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 ]
After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 networks 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.