List of After Words interviews first aired in 2012

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) 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
June 2, 2012 Steve Coll Dina Cappiello Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power ExxonMobil
June 10, 2012 Madeleine Albright Ann Blackman Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
June 23, 2012 Katie Pavlich Major Garrett Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up ATF gunwalking scandal
June 30, 2012 Fawaz Gerges Phyllis Bennis Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment?
July 7, 2012 Martha Rosenberg Stephanie Beasley Born with a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health
July 14, 2012 Peter Collier Angela Stent Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick Jeane Kirkpatrick
July 18, 2012 Jonah Goldberg Nia-Malika Henderson The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
July 23, 2012 Kaitlin Bell Barnett Judith Warner Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up
July 28, 2012 Frederick Harris Charlton McIlwain The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics
August 5, 2012 David Crist Ellen Laipson The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran Iran–United States relations
August 12, 2012 Edward Conard Michael Ettlinger Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong
August 18, 2012 John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky Linda Killian Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk
August 26, 2012 John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher Debating Same-Sex Marriage Corvino and Gallagher interviewed each other about the book they co-wrote, in which they espoused opposing views on Same-sex marriage.
September 2, 2012 Donald Barlett and James Steele Juan Williams The Betrayal of the American Dream
September 9, 2012 Kofi Annan Katty Kay Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
September 16, 2012 Anton Treuer Jacqueline Pata Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask Native Americans in the United States
September 22, 2012 Richard Miniter Karlyn Bowman Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him
September 29, 2012 Sasha Issenberg Nancy Jacobson The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
October 7, 2012 John Jenkins Joan Biskupic The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist William Rehnquist
October 13, 2012 Marguerite Guzman Amy Goodman The Invisible Wounds of War: Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
October 20, 2012 Hanna Rosin Tucker Carlson The End of Men - and the Rise of Women
October 28, 2012 David Coleman James Hershberg The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis
November 4, 2012 Salman Khan Nina Rees The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined Khan Academy
November 10, 2012 David Cay Johnston Jayne O'Donnell The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" and Other Tricks to Rob You Blind
November 17, 2012 James Patterson Daryl Scott The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America 1965 in the United States
November 25, 2012 Gautam Mukunda Richard Brookhiser Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
December 1, 2012 Ray Kurzweil Ingrid Wickelgren How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
December 8, 2012 Marty Makary Richard Davies Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
December 15, 2012 Cynthia Lowen Donna Lieberman Bully: An Action Plan for Teachers and Parents to Combat the Bullying Epidemic in America Bullying
December 22, 2012 Craig Whitney Paul Helmke Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment
December 29, 2012 Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick Michael Kazin The Untold History of the United States

References

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