List of After Words interviews first aired in 2009

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)	Book	Topic of interview / Comments
January 3, 2009	Jay Parini	Sam Tanenhaus	Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America
January 11, 2009	Christopher Horner	Jed Babbin	Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
January 18, 2009	Robert Bork	Eugene Meyer	A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments
January 24, 2009	David Sanger	Bob Deans	The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
January 31, 2009	Gwen Ifill	David Brooks	The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
February 7, 2009	Bryan Burrough	Joe Barton	The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes	H.L. Hunt, Roy Cullen, Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison
February 14, 2009	Philip Howard	Joan Biskupic	Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law
February 21, 2009	Roger L. Simon	Armstrong Williams	Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
February 28, 2009	Azar Nafisi	Trita Parsi	Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
March 14, 2009	Ann Coulter	Michelle Easton	Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
March 21, 2009	Felix Rohatyn	Greg Ip	Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now
April 4, 2009	Ivan Eland	Ron Paul	Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
April 11, 2009	Neal Bascomb	Elizabeth Holtzman	Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi	Adolf Eichmann, The Mossad
April 18, 2009	Paul Escott	Jane Turner Censer	"What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America
April 25, 2009	Alan Beattie	Patrice Hill	False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World	Economic history of the world
May 2, 2009	Liaquat Ahamed	Gerald Seib	Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World	Benjamin Strong, Jr., Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman, Émile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht
May 9, 2009	Frederick Hitz	Peter Earnest	Why Spy?: Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty
May 14, 2009	William Cohan	Deborah Solomon	House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street	Bear Stearns
May 16, 2009	Mark Rudd	Ishmael Reed	Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen	Students for a Democratic Society, Weather Underground
May 23, 2009	Elaine Showalter	Sara Nelson	A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
May 30, 2009	Bethany Moreton	Nancy MacLean	To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise	Wal-Mart
June 6, 2009	Stan Greenberg	Mary Matalin	Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders	Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Ehud Barak, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, Nelson Mandela
June 13, 2009	Tierney Cahill	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Ms. Cahill for Congress: One Fearless Teacher, Her Sixth-Grade Class, and the Election That Changed Their Lives Forever
June 20, 2009	Eduardo Galeano	John Dinges	Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
June 29, 2009	Nicholas Schmidle	Ralph Peters	To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
July 4, 2009	Wangari Maathai	Nicole Lee	The Challenge for Africa
July 18, 2009	Edward Humes	Matthew Kahn	Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
July 13, 2009	Joe Scarborough	Peggy Noonan	The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise
July 25, 2009	Harry Stein	Stefan Kanfer	"I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican:" A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous
August 1, 2009	Mia Bay	Elsa Barkley Brown	To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells	Ida B. Wells
August 10, 2009	Ben Mezrich	A.J. Jacobs	The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook -- A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal	Facebook
August 17, 2009	Brian Jennings	Monica Crowley	Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio
August 22, 2009	John McCaslin	Keith Stroup	Weed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine
August 31, 2009	Peter Carlson	Sergei Khrushchev	K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist	Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the United States
September 6, 2009	Tony Zinni	Julius Becton	Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom
September 12, 2009	Kathryn Olmsted	Barry Glassner	Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
September 19, 2009	Jon Krakauer	Sean Naylor	Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman	Pat Tillman
September 28, 2009	Kimberly Kagan	Pete Hegseth	The Surge: A Military History	Iraq War troop surge of 2007
October 3, 2009	Chris Hedges	Ron Suskind	Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
October 10, 2009	Tom Ridge	Mimi Hall	The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege and How We Can Be Safe Again
October 24, 2009	Michael Rosen	John Hope Byrant	What Else but Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse
October 25, 2009	Taylor Branch	John Harris	The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President	Bill Clinton
November 1, 2009	John Fleming	Amity Shlaes	The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War	Victor Kravchenko, Jan Valtin, Whittaker Chambers, Arthur Koestler
November 7, 2009	Harry MacLean	Richard Howorth	The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption	James Ford Seale
November 15, 2009	Peter Schweizer	Michele Bachmann	Architects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy -- and How They Will Do It Again if No One Stops Them
November 22, 2009	Nomi Prins	Bernie Sanders	It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street	Financial crisis of 2007–2008
November 29, 2009	Wil Haygood	Dave Zirin	Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson	Sugar Ray Robinson
December 5, 2009	Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner	Ezra Klein	SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
December 14, 2009	Joan Biskupic	Ted Olson	American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia	Antonin Scalia
December 19, 2009	Greg Mortenson	Mary Bono Mack	Stones into Schools
December 26, 2009	Jane Goodall	John Nielsen	Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink	Endangered species