List of After Words interviews first aired in 2017

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.

First air date(Links to video)Interviewee(s)Interviewer(s)BookTopic of interview / CommentsJanuary 7, 2017Sophie PinkhamAlexander CooleyBlack Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet UkraineJanuary 14, 2017Jonathan ChaitJim AcostaAudacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will PrevailJanuary 21, 2017Bret BaierSusan EisenhowerThree Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final MissionJanuary 28, 2017Emrys WestacottMichelle SingletaryFrugality: Why Less Is More - More or LessFebruary 4, 2017Hugh HewittS.E. CuppThe Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook for a Lasting GOP Majority February 11, 2017Melissa FlemingMichel GabaudanA Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and SurvivalFebruary 18, 2017Roger StoneSusan FerrechioThe Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution2016 United States presidential election, Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016February 25, 2017Sybrina Fulton and Tracy MartinWesley LoweryRest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon MartinTrayvon MartinMarch 4, 2017Sophia NelsonMichael SteeleE Pluribus ONE: Reclaiming Our Founders' Vision for a United AmericaMarch 11, 2017Richard HaassPaula DobrianskyA World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old OrderMarch 18, 2017Sylvia TaraGina KolataThe Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body’s Least Understood Organ and What It Means for YouBody fatMarch 25, 2017Lisa ServonRohit ChopraThe Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class SurvivesApril 1, 2017Sheldon WhitehouseEric LiptonCaptured: The Corporate Infiltration of American DemocracyApril 8, 2017Charles CampisiCorey PeguesBlue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad CopsApril 15, 2017Bill GertzElise StefanikiWar: War and Peace in the Information AgeApril 22, 2017Ken BuckFredreka SchoutenDrain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You ThinkApril 29, 2017John KasichChristine Todd WhitmanTwo Paths: America Divided or UnitedMay 6, 2017Helene CooperKaren BassMadame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson SirleafEllen Johnson SirleafMay 13, 2017Elisabeth RosenthalDavid BlumenthalAn American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It BackMay 20, 2017Stuart TaylorBeth FrerkingThe Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's UniversitiesMay 27, 2017Chris HayesElizabeth HintonA Colony in a NationJune 3, 2017Ben SasseSteven OlikaraThe Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-RelianceJune 10, 2017Anne-Marie SlaughterDenis McDonoughThe Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked WorldJune 17, 2017Mike LeeNeal KatyalWritten Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big GovernmentJune 24, 2017Rachel Schneider and Jonathan MorduchKathryn EdinThe Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of UncertaintyJuly 1, 2017Heath DavisSarah EllisBeyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?Gender identityJuly 8, 2017Brian MerchantSteve LohrThe One DeviceHistory of iPhoneJuly 15, 2017Naomi KleinMedea BenjaminNo Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We NeedJuly 22, 2017Sharyl AttkissonErik WempleThe Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You VoteJuly 29, 2017Rosa DeLauroAparna MathurThe Least Among Us: Waging the Battle for the VulnerableAugust 5, 2017Jesse EisingerJennifer TaubThe Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute ExecutivesAugust 12, 2017Jeff FlakeS.E. CuppConscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to PrincipleAugust 19, 2017Milo YiannopoulosMarji RossDangerousAugust 26, 2017George MelloanRana ForooharFree People, Free Markets: How the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages Shaped AmericaThe Wall Street JournalSeptember 2, 2017Mark LevinJim DeMintRediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of ProgressivismSeptember 9, 2017Danielle AllenWes MooreCuzSeptember 16, 2017David OsborneChester FinnReinventing America’s Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education SystemSeptember 23, 2017Suzy HansenElmira BayrasliNotes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American WorldSeptember 30, 2017Art LevineJeffrey LiebermanMental Health, Inc.: How Corruption, Lax Oversight, and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable CitizensOctober 7, 2017Charles SykesTammy BruceHow the Right Lost Its MindOctober 14, 2017Craig ShirleyTom DavisCitizen Newt: the Making of a Reagan ConservativeNewt GingrichOctober 21, 2017Gretchen CarlsonSally QuinnBe Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power BackOctober 29, 2017Bob SchiefferSusan GlasserOverloadNovember 4, 2017 November 11, 2017Tamer ElnouryMichael GermanAmerican Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI AgentNovember 18, 2017Christopher ScaliaDavid SavageScalia SpeaksAntonin ScaliaNovember 25, 2017Christopher BedfordRobert TraynhamThe Art of the DonaldDonald TrumpDecember 2, 2017Jennet ConantBruce DarlingMan of the HourJames Bryant ConantDecember 9, 2017Khizr KhanRep. Jimmy PanettaAn American FamilyDecember 16, 2017Keith KofflerLouie GohmertBannon: Always the RebelSteve BannonDecember 23, 2017Scott KellyCharles BoldenEndurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery

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