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List of After Words interviews first aired in 2005

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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.[1]

First air date
(Links to video)
Interviewee(s) Interviewer(s) Book Topic of interview / Comments
January 2, 2005 Newt Gingrich Norman Ornstein Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America
January 9, 2005 Howard Friel Ken Adelman The Record of the Paper: How the 'New York Times' Misreports U.S. Foreign Policy The New York Times
January 16, 2005 Helen Prejean Victoria Toensing The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions Wrongful execution
January 23, 2005 Craig Shirley Joseph Trippi Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All Republican Party presidential primaries, 1976, Ronald Reagan
January 30, 2005 Melissa Boyle Mahle Dana Priest Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA From Iran Contra to 9/11 The Central Intelligence Agency
February 6, 2005 Essie Mae Washington-Williams Harold Ford, Jr. Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond Strom Thurmond
February 13, 2005 Natan Sharansky Tom Gjelten The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
February 20, 2005 Doug Wead Harold Gullan The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of our Nation's Leaders
February 27, 2005 William Hague Martin Turner William Pitt the Younger William Pitt the Younger
March 6, 2005 Donald Ritchie John Dickerson Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps
March 13, 2005 Tom Fenton Roger Mudd Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All
March 20, 2005 Ari Fleischer Karen Hosler Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House
March 27, 2005 Jim Wallis Randy Tate God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
April 3, 2005 Roy Moore Bill Press So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom Glassroth v. Moore
April 10, 2005 Ernestine Bradley Hadassah Lieberman The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life
April 17, 2005 Bob Dole Rick Atkinson One Soldier's Story: A Memoir
April 24, 2005 Jorge Ramos Linda Chavez Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History
May 1, 2005 Linda Greenhouse Tim O'Brien Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey Harry Blackmun
May 8, 2005 Byron York Clarence Page The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President--and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time
May 15, 2005 Michael Eric Dyson Debra Dickerson Is Bill Cosby Right: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
May 22, 2005 Ronald Radosh Jack Valenti Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left
May 29, 2005 Jack Coughlin Tony Capaccio Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
June 5, 2005 Zell Miller John Anderson A Deficit of Decency
June 12, 2005 Patricia O'Toole Tom Daschle When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House Theodore Roosevelt
June 19, 2005 Neil Baldwin Joseph Bottum The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War
June 26, 2005 David Rothkopf James Bamford Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power United States National Security Council
July 3, 2005 Robert W. Merry Harlan Ullman Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition
July 10, 2005 Bob Woodward James Mann The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat Mark Felt, Deep Throat
July 17, 2005 Victor Navasky David Frum A Matter of Opinion
July 24, 2005 Asra Nomani Akbar Ahmed Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
July 31, 2005 Rick Santorum Kirk Victor It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good
August 7, 2005 Kenneth Walsh Susan Eisenhower From Mount Vernon to Crawford: A History of the Presidents and Their Retreats
August 14, 2005 Harvey Kaye Michael Novak Thomas Paine and the Promise of America Thomas Paine
August 21, 2005 Ralph Peters Anatol Lieven New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy
August 28, 2005 Sheldon Hackney Janet Langhart Cohen Magnolias Without Moonlight: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration History of the Southern United States, Politics of the Southern United States
September 3, 2005 Charles Peters Thomas Fleming Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing 'We Want Willkie!' Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World 1940 Republican National Convention
September 10, 2005 Barbara Ehrenreich Stephen Moore Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
September 17, 2005 Steve Forbes Alice Rivlin Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS Flat tax
September 24, 2005 Tony Blankley Barbara Slavin The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?
October 1, 2005 Andrea Mitchell Robert Lichter Talking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
October 8, 2005 Chris Whittle Jay Mathews Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education
October 15, 2005 Bing West Mark Mazzetti No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah Second Battle of Fallujah
October 22, 2005 Mary Frances Berry Juan Williams My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Callie House
October 29, 2005 Thomas P.M. Barnett Tom Feeney Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating
November 6, 2005 Jimmy Carter Brian Williams Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
November 12, 2005 Bill Richardson Chuck Todd Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life
November 19, 2005 Nathaniel Fick Andrew Carroll One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer United States Marine Corps
November 26, 2005 Bruce Chadwick Edward Lengel The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America's First Fight for Freedom George Washington
December 3, 2005 Mary Mapes Brent Bozell Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power Killian documents controversy
December 10, 2005 Haynes Johnson Joseph diGenova The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
December 17th, 2005 John Linder David Wessel The FairTax Book FairTax
December 24, 2005 George Weigel Jon Meacham God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church Pope Benedict XVI
December 31, 2005 Janis Karpinski Douglas Macgregor One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

References

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