# List of After Words interviews first aired in 2008

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 5, 2008 | Susan Faludi | Marie Arana | The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America | |
| January 12, 2008 | Cathy Wilkerson | Bobby Rush | Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman | |
| January 19, 2008 | Kiron Skinner | Marcus Mabry | The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin | |
| January 26, 2008 | Dana Milbank | Juan Williams | Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government | |
| 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 | |
| February 10, 2008 | Michael Long | Kevin Merida | First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson | Jackie Robinson |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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) | |
| 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 |
| March 15, 2008 | Mark Lynas | Gene Karpinski | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet | Global warming, Climate change |
| March 22, 2008 | Carl Cannon | Bob Schieffer | Reagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy | George W. Bush |
| March 29, 2008 | Robin Wright | Anthony Cordesman | Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East | |
| April 5, 2008 | Dee Dee Myers | Dana Perino | Why Women Should Rule The World | |
| 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 |
| April 20, 2008 | Steve Coll | Michael Scheuer | The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century | Bin Laden family |
| April 26, 2008 | Susan Jacoby | Nick Gillespie | The Age of American Unreason | |
| May 3, 2008 | Bruce Bartlett | Clarence Page | Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past | |
| May 11, 2008 | Rupert Smith | Winslow Wheeler | The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World | |
| May 18, 2008 | Cokie Roberts | Patricia Schroeder | Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation | |
| 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 | |
| May 31, 2008 | Mary Tillman | Tony Capaccio | Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman | Pat Tillman |
| June 7, 2008 | Robert Kagan | Clifford May | The Return of History and the End of Dreams | |
| June 16, 2008 | Ted Sorensen | Robert Schlesinger | Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History | |
| June 21, 2008 | Andrew McCarthy | Hugh Hewitt | Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad | |
| June 29, 2008 | Tom Hayden | Jon Wiener | Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader | |
| 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 |
| July 13, 2008 | Raj Patel | Evan Kleiman | Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System | |
| July 20, 2008 | Rajmohan Gandhi | Amitabh Pal | Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire | Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| July 26, 2008 | Mahvish Ruksana Khan | Nancy Snow | My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me | Guantanamo Bay detention camp |
| August 10, 2008 | Patrick Cockburn | James Zogby | Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq | Muqtada al-Sadr |
| August 17, 2008 | Anthony Kronman | Charles Murray | Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life | |
| August 24, 2008 | Thomas Frank | Jeanne Cummings | The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule | |
| August 31, 2008 | Timothy Lynch | Gary Schmitt | After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy | Foreign policy of the United States |
| 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 | |
| September 14, 2008 | Christopher Buckley | Charles Kesler | Supreme Courtship | |
| 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 |
| September 28, 2008 | Harry Reid | Tom Daschle | The Good Fight | |
| October 4, 2008 | Tariq Ali | Robert Dreyfuss | The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power | Pakistan–United States relations |
| October 11, 2008 | Bob Schieffer | Rita Braver | Bob Schieffer's America | |
| 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 |
| October 25, 2008 | Andrew Bacevich | Ivan Eland | The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| December 6, 2008 | Michael Medved | Mona Charen | The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation | |
| December 14, 2008 | Brian Michael Jenkins | P.J. Crowley | Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? | |
| December 21, 2008 | David Reynolds | Robert Remini | Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson | |
| December 28, 2008 | Philip Dray | Peniel Joseph | Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen | |