List of After Words interviews first aired in 2015
After Words American television series on the C-SPAN2 network ’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV [ 1]
First air date
Interviewee(s)
Interviewer(s)
Book
Topic of interview / Comments
January 3, 2015 Chuck Todd Dan Balz The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House Presidency of Barack Obama
January 10, 2015 Cass Sunstein Susan Cain Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter Group decision-making
January 17, 2015 Bret Stephens Bob Minzesheimer America in Retreat Foreign policy of the United States
January 24, 2015 Mike Huckabee S. E. Cupp God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
January 31, 2015 April Ryan Ann Compton The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America
February 7, 2015 Toby Harnden Dan Lamothe Dead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan
February 14, 2015 David Axelrod David Frum Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
February 21, 2015 Wes Moore Wendy Spencer The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters
February 28, 2015 Allan Ryskind Tucker Carlson Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters - Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler
March 7, 2015 David Morris Kayla Williams The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Posttraumatic stress disorder
March 14, 2015 William Bennett Jonah Goldberg Going to Pot: Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana is Harming America Cannabis in the United States
March 21, 2015 Eric Foner Edna Greene Medford Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad
March 28, 2015 Peter Wallison Sudeep Reddy Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again
April 4, 2015 Cornel West Khalil Gibran Muhammad The Radical King Martin Luther King Jr.
April 11, 2015 Grover Norquist Stan Veuger End the IRS Before It Ends Us: How to Restore a Low Tax, High Growth, Wealthy America Internal Revenue Service
April 18, 2015 Elaine Lowry Brye Patricia Kime Be Safe, Love Mom: A Military Mom’s Stories of Courage, Comfort, and Surviving Life on the Homefront
April 25, 2015 Colman McCarthy Medea Benjamin Teaching Peace
May 2, 2015 Peter Slevin Cassandra Clayton Michelle Obama: A Life Michelle Obama
May 9, 2015 Jon Krakauer Katie Baker Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
May 16, 2015 Caroline Fredrickson Sabrina Schaeffer Under the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run Over
May 23, 2015 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Rodney Slater Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead Transportation in the United States
May 30, 2015 Kenji Yoshino David Savage Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial Hollingsworth v. Perry
June 6, 2015 Joseph Stiglitz Heather McGhee The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
June 13, 2015 Kirsten Powers Sharyl Attkisson The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech
June 20, 2015 Mona Eltahawy Rangita de Silva de Alwis Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs A Sexual Revolution
June 27, 2015 Nelson Denis Teresite Levy War Against All Puerto Ricans
July 4, 2015 Carol Berkin Maeva Marcus The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties The U.S. Bill of Rights
July 11, 2015 Charles Shields Neely Tucker Mockingbird Harper Lee
July 18, 2015 Andrea Mays Jeffery Deaver The Millionaire and the Bard Henry Clay Folger , Shakespeare's First Folio
July 25, 2015 Ralph Nader Andy Shallal Return to Sender
August 1, 2015 Michael Tanner Maya MacGuineas Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis
August 8, 2015 Charles Murray Jared Bernstein By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
August 15, 2015 Claire McCaskill Susan Glasser Plenty Ladylike
August 22, 2015 Arthur Brooks Michael Steele The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier and More Prosperous America
August 29, 2015 Dan-el Padilla Peralta Liz Robbins Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
September 5, 2015 Kathryn Edin Gwen Moore $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
September 12, 2015 Amy Klobuchar Susan Page The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
September 19, 2015 Joy-Ann Reid Michael Higginbotham Fracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons, and the Racial Divide
September 26, 2015 Bill O'Reilly Bay Buchanan Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
October 3, 2015 Martha Kumar Mack McLarty Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of Power
October 10, 2015 David Gregory Sally Quinn How's Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
October 17, 2015 Bethany McLean Joe Light Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
October 24, 2015 John Danforth Tim Hutchinson The Relevance of Religion
October 31, 2015 Sean Naylor Dana Priest Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command Joint Special Operations Command
November 7, 2015 Ben Bernanke Sherrod Brown The Courage to Act
November 14, 2015 Patrick Kennedy Jim McDermott A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
November 21, 2015 Niall Ferguson Carla Anne Robbins Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist Henry Kissinger
November 28, 2015 Roberta Kaplan Zoe Tillman Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA United States v. Windsor
December 5, 2015 Gilbert M. Gaul Tom McMillen Billion-Dollar Ball
December 12, 2015 Theresa Brown Debra Hatmaker The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
December 19, 2015 Sir Michael Marmot Christine Sow The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
December 26, 2015 Darcy Olsen Kimberly Leonard The Right to Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Lifesaving Treatments They Need
References
^ Jim Milliot (January 10, 2005). "BookTV Eyes More Original Programming". Publishers Weekly .
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