List of After Words interviews first aired in 2020
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 4, 2020 Steven Greenhouse Andy Levin Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
January 11, 2020 Peggy Orenstein Jared Yates Sexton Boys and Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
January 18, 2020 Rana Foroohar Jon Fortt Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US
February 1, 2020 Andrea Bernstein Jonathan O'Connell American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power
February 8, 2020 Howard Bryant Etan Thomas Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
February 15, 2020 Sally Pipes Buddy Carter False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All
February 22, 2020 Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Jeff Merkley Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
February 29, 2020 Cal Thomas Amanda Carpenter America's Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers... and the Future of the United States
March 7, 2020 Lee Drutman Matthew Dallek Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America
March 14, 2020 K. T. McFarland Danielle McLaughlin Revolution: Trump, Washington and "We the People"
March 21, 2020 Jennifer Steinhauer Chrissy Houlahan The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
March 28, 2020 Eilene Zimmerman Leana Wen Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy
April 4, 2020 Jonathan Karl Mike McCurry Front Row at the Trump Show
April 11, 2020 Michelle King Joanne Lipman The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work
April 18, 2020 Jim McKelvey Cat Zakrzewski The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time
June 28, 2020 Wes Moore Heather McGhee Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City 2015 Baltimore protests
July 4, 2020 Mary Jordan Susan Page The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump Melania Trump
July 11, 2020 Dinesh D'Souza Benjamin Powell United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.
July 18, 2020 Steven Levy Rana Foroohar Facebook: The Inside Story Facebook
July 25, 2020 Pramila Jayapal Jim Himes Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman's Guide to Politics and Political Change
August 1, 2020 Michael Shellenberger Andrew Revkin Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
August 8, 2020 Zerlina Maxwell Maria Kumar The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
August 15, 2020 John Yoo Mark Rozell Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power
August 22, 2020 Debora MacKenzie Claire Standley COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One
August 29, 2020 Edward Ball Sheryll Cashin Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
September 5, 2020 Joel Pollak Matt Welch Red November: Will the Country Vote Red for Trump or Red for Socialism?
September 12, 2020 Sarah Huckabee Sanders Jennifer Jacobs Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House
September 19, 2020 Chris Murphy Thomas Abt The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy
September 26, 2020 Peter Strzok Adam Goldman Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump
October 3, 2020 Lou Dobbs Victor Davis Hanson The Trump Century: How Our President Changed the Course of History Forever
October 10, 2020 John Brennan Julian Barnes Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad
October 17, 2020 Candace Owens Matt Schlapp Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
October 24, 2020 Al Sharpton Jonathan Capehart Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads
October 31, 2020 Gerald Seib Karen Tumulty We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution
November 7, 2020 Carlos Lozada Pamela Paul What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
November 14, 2020 John Fabian Witt Lawrence Gostin American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
November 21, 2020 Deborah Stone Cathy O'Neil Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
November 28, 2020 Sally Hubbard David McLaughlin Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control
December 5, 2020 Kevin Williamson Salena Zito Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America"
December 12, 2020 Christa Parravani Alina Salganicoff Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood
December 19, 2020 Ruth Ben-Ghiat Sheri Berman Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
December 26, 2020
References
^ Jim Milliot (January 10, 2005). "BookTV Eyes More Original Programming". Publishers Weekly
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