List of After Words interviews first aired in 2008
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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.{{cite news |title=BookTV Eyes More Original Programming |author=Jim Milliot |newspaper=Publishers Weekly |date=10 January 2005 }}
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[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Falud January 5, 2008] | Susan Faludi | Marie Arana | The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/CathyW January 12, 2008] | Cathy Wilkerson | Bobby Rush | Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/202022-1 January 19, 2008] | Kiron Skinner | Marcus Mabry | The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/202399-1 January 26, 2008] | Dana Milbank | Juan Williams | Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Tret February 2, 2008] | Pete Earley and Sergei Tretyakov | Peter Earnest | Comrade J: The Untold Story of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/203250-1 February 10, 2008] | Michael Long | Kevin Merida | First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson | Jackie Robinson |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/MarkSi February 17, 2008] | Mark Siegel | Akbar Ahmed | Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West | Mark Siegel discusses the book that he co-wrote with Benazir Bhutto, which was published several months after her assassination. |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Anthony February 23, 2008] | Anthony Lewis | Ronald Collins | Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment | First Amendment to the United States Constitution |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/203225-1 March 1, 2008] | David Cay Johnston | Maya MacGuineas | Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Sheno March 9, 2008] | Philip Shenon | Michael Duffy | The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation | 9/11 Commission, Criticism of the 9/11 Commission |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Lyna March 15, 2008] | Mark Lynas | Gene Karpinski | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet | Global warming, Climate change |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/203575-1 March 22, 2008] | Carl Cannon | Bob Schieffer | Reagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy | George W. Bush |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/203750-1 March 29, 2008] | Robin Wright | Anthony Cordesman | Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/DeeD April 5, 2008] | Dee Dee Myers | Dana Perino | Why Women Should Rule The World | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/203625-1 April 12, 2008] | Roy Gutman | Moisés Naím | How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan | Osama bin Laden, The Taliban |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/305141-1 April 20, 2008] | Steve Coll | Michael Scheuer | The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century | Bin Laden family |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298019-1 April 26, 2008] | Susan Jacoby | Nick Gillespie | The Age of American Unreason | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/204475-1 May 3, 2008] | Bruce Bartlett | Clarence Page | Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/203636-1 May 11, 2008] | Rupert Smith | Winslow Wheeler | The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Cok May 18, 2008] | Cokie Roberts | Patricia Schroeder | Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/204675-1 May 24, 2008] | Matt Taibbi | David Corn | The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/204725-1 May 31, 2008] | Mary Tillman | Tony Capaccio | Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman | Pat Tillman |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/204777-1 June 7, 2008] | Robert Kagan | Clifford May | The Return of History and the End of Dreams | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/204799-1 June 16, 2008] | Ted Sorensen | Robert Schlesinger | Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/204999-1 June 21, 2008] | Andrew McCarthy | Hugh Hewitt | Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/TomH June 29, 2008] | Tom Hayden | Jon Wiener | Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/JPh July 6, 2008] | J. Phillip London | Rowan Scarborough | Our Good Name: A Company's Fight to Defend Its Honor and Get the Truth Told About Abu Ghraib | CACI |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/204975-1 July 13, 2008] | Raj Patel | Evan Kleiman | Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Rajm July 20, 2008] | Rajmohan Gandhi | Amitabh Pal | Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire | Mohandas K. Gandhi |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/205025-1 July 26, 2008] | Mahvish Ruksana Khan | Nancy Snow | My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me | Guantanamo Bay detention camp |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Cockbur August 10, 2008] | Patrick Cockburn | James Zogby | Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq | Muqtada al-Sadr |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Kron August 17, 2008] | Anthony Kronman | Charles Murray | Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/280212-1 August 24, 2008] | Thomas Frank | Jeanne Cummings | The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/280531-1 August 31, 2008] | Timothy Lynch | Gary Schmitt | After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy | Foreign policy of the United States |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/280288-1 September 7, 2008] | Jane Mayer | Dana Priest | The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/280960-1 September 14, 2008] | Christopher Buckley | Charles Kesler | Supreme Courtship | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/281154-1 September 22, 2008] | Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft | David Ignatius | America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy | Foreign policy of the United States |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HarryR September 28, 2008] | Harry Reid | Tom Daschle | The Good Fight | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/281492-1 October 4, 2008] | Tariq Ali | Robert Dreyfuss | The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power | Pakistan–United States relations |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Schief October 11, 2008] | Bob Schieffer | Rita Braver | Bob Schieffer's America | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Bamf October 18, 2008] | James Bamford | Jonathan Landay | The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America | National Security Agency |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Bace October 25, 2008] | Andrew Bacevich | Ivan Eland | The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Dozi November 1, 2008] | Kimberly Dozier | Lee Woodruff | Breathing Fire: Fighting to Report -- and Survive -- the War in Iraq | Iraq War, Media coverage of the Iraq War |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Edelm November 8, 2008] | Marian Wright Edelman | Geoffrey Canada | The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Gert November 15, 2008] | Bill Gertz | Frank Gaffney | The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/RickW November 30, 2008] | Rick Wartzman | Susan Shillinglaw | Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath | The Grapes of Wrath |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/282654-1 December 6, 2008] | Michael Medved | Mona Charen | The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/282781-1 December 14, 2008] | Brian Michael Jenkins | P.J. Crowley | Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Reyno December 21, 2008] | David Reynolds | Robert Remini | Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson | |
[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Dray December 28, 2008] | Philip Dray | Peniel Joseph | Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen |