# 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) | Book | Topic of interview / Comments |
| January 7, 2017 | Sophie Pinkham | Alexander Cooley | Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine | |
| January 14, 2017 | Jonathan Chait | Jim Acosta | Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail | |
| January 21, 2017 | Bret Baier | Susan Eisenhower | Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission | |
| January 28, 2017 | Emrys Westacott | Michelle Singletary | Frugality: Why Less Is More - More or Less | |
| February 4, 2017 | Hugh Hewitt | S.E. Cupp | The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook for a Lasting GOP Majority | |
| February 11, 2017 | Melissa Fleming | Michel Gabaudan | A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival | |
| February 18, 2017 | Roger Stone | Susan Ferrechio | The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution | 2016 United States presidential election, Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 |
| February 25, 2017 | Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin | Wesley Lowery | Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin | Trayvon Martin |
| March 4, 2017 | Sophia Nelson | Michael Steele | E Pluribus ONE: Reclaiming Our Founders' Vision for a United America | |
| March 11, 2017 | Richard Haass | Paula Dobriansky | A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order | |
| March 18, 2017 | Sylvia Tara | Gina Kolata | The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body’s Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You | Body fat |
| March 25, 2017 | Lisa Servon | Rohit Chopra | The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives | |
| April 1, 2017 | Sheldon Whitehouse | Eric Lipton | Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy | |
| April 8, 2017 | Charles Campisi | Corey Pegues | Blue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops | |
| April 15, 2017 | Bill Gertz | Elise Stefanik | iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age | |
| April 22, 2017 | Ken Buck | Fredreka Schouten | Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think | |
| April 29, 2017 | John Kasich | Christine Todd Whitman | Two Paths: America Divided or United | |
| May 6, 2017 | Helene Cooper | Karen Bass | Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
| May 13, 2017 | Elisabeth Rosenthal | David Blumenthal | An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back | |
| May 20, 2017 | Stuart Taylor | Beth Frerking | The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities | |
| May 27, 2017 | Chris Hayes | Elizabeth Hinton | A Colony in a Nation | |
| June 3, 2017 | Ben Sasse | Steven Olikara | The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance | |
| June 10, 2017 | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Denis McDonough | The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World | |
| June 17, 2017 | Mike Lee | Neal Katyal | Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government | |
| June 24, 2017 | Rachel Schneider and Jonathan Morduch | Kathryn Edin | The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty | |
| July 1, 2017 | Heath Davis | Sarah Ellis | Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? | Gender identity |
| July 8, 2017 | Brian Merchant | Steve Lohr | The One Device | History of iPhone |
| July 15, 2017 | Naomi Klein | Medea Benjamin | No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need | |
| July 22, 2017 | Sharyl Attkisson | Erik Wemple | The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote | |
| July 29, 2017 | Rosa DeLauro | Aparna Mathur | The Least Among Us: Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable | |
| August 5, 2017 | Jesse Eisinger | Jennifer Taub | The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives | |
| August 12, 2017 | Jeff Flake | S.E. Cupp | Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle | |
| August 19, 2017 | Milo Yiannopoulos | Marji Ross | Dangerous | |
| August 26, 2017 | George Melloan | Rana Foroohar | Free People, Free Markets: How the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages Shaped America | The Wall Street Journal |
| September 2, 2017 | Mark Levin | Jim DeMint | Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism | |
| September 9, 2017 | Danielle Allen | Wes Moore | Cuz | |
| September 16, 2017 | David Osborne | Chester Finn | Reinventing America’s Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education System | |
| September 23, 2017 | Suzy Hansen | Elmira Bayrasli | Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World | |
| September 30, 2017 | Art Levine | Jeffrey Lieberman | Mental Health, Inc.: How Corruption, Lax Oversight, and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens | |
| October 7, 2017 | Charles Sykes | Tammy Bruce | How the Right Lost Its Mind | |
| October 14, 2017 | Craig Shirley | Tom Davis | Citizen Newt: the Making of a Reagan Conservative | Newt Gingrich |
| October 21, 2017 | Gretchen Carlson | Sally Quinn | Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back | |
| October 29, 2017 | Bob Schieffer | Susan Glasser | Overload | |
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| November 11, 2017 | Tamer Elnoury | Michael German | American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent | |
| November 18, 2017 | Christopher Scalia | David Savage | Scalia Speaks | Antonin Scalia |
| November 25, 2017 | Christopher Bedford | Robert Traynham | The Art of the Donald | Donald Trump |
| December 2, 2017 | Jennet Conant | Bruce Darling | Man of the Hour | James Bryant Conant |
| December 9, 2017 | Khizr Khan | Rep. Jimmy Panetta | An American Family | |
| December 16, 2017 | Keith Koffler | Louie Gohmert | Bannon: Always the Rebel | Steve Bannon |
| December 23, 2017 | Scott Kelly | Charles Bolden | Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery | |