# List of After Words interviews first aired in 2011

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 2, 2011 | William Hartung | Pierre Sprey | Prophets of War | Lockheed Martin |
| January 8, 2011 | Eduardo Porter | Daniel Gross | The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do | |
| January 17, 2011 | Clarence Jones | Herb Boyd | Behind the Dream | March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, The "I Have a Dream" speech |
| January 22, 2011 | Bill Kristol | David Brooks | The Neoconservative Persuasion | Bill Kristol discusses The Neoconservative Persuasion by his late father Irving Kristol, for which he (Bill) wrote the foreword. |
| January 29, 2011 | Peter Bergen | Max Boot | The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda | War on Terror |
| February 5, 2011 | Michael Reagan | John Avlon | The New Reagan Revolution | |
| February 14, 2011 | George Friedman | Susan Glasser | The Next Decade | |
| February 19, 2011 | Carole Simpson | Nia-Malika Henderson | NewsLady | |
| February 26, 2011 | Susan Jacoby | Sylvia Smith | Never Say Die | |
| March 5, 2011 | Rubin Carter | Juan Williams | Eye of the Hurricane | |
| March 12, 2011 | Peter Firstbrook | Dinesh D'Souza | The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family | Family of Barack Obama |
| March 19, 2011 | Dambisa Moyo | Dan Mitchell | How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - and the Stark Choices Ahead | |
| March 26, 2011 | Leah McGrath Goodman | Jerry DiColo | The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market | New York Mercantile Exchange |
| April 3, 2011 | Ken Walsh | Julianne Malveaux | Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House | |
| April 9, 2011 | Jeff Greenfield | Ted Koppel | Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Ford, Carter, Reagan | |
| April 16, 2011 | Kevin Williamson | John Podhoretz | The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism | Socialism |
| April 23, 2011 | Edward Lengel | Peter Henriques | Inventing George Washington | George Washington |
| April 30, 2011 | Peter Godwin | Nicole Lee | The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe | Robert Mugabe |
| May 7, 2011 | Andrew Breitbart | Armstrong Williams | Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! | |
| May 14, 2011 | William Cohan | Patrice Hill | Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World | Goldman Sachs |
| May 21, 2011 | Frederick Kempe | Angela Stent | Berlin 1961 | Berlin Crisis of 1961 |
| May 28, 2011 | Janny Scott | Major Garrett | A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother | Ann Dunham |
| June 4, 2011 | Michael Totten | Richard Murphy | The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel | Cedar Revolution, 2006 Lebanon War |
| June 13, 2011 | Henry Kissinger | Monica Crowley | On China | Sino-American relations |
| June 18, 2011 | James Gleick | Frank Rose | The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | Information, Information Age |
| June 25, 2011 | Erick Stakelbeck | Fred Grandy | The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You about the Islamic Threat | |
| July 2, 2011 | Eli Pariser | Clay Shirky | The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You | |
| July 9, 2011 | Charles Hill | David Ignatius | Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism | Islam |
| July 16, 2011 | Jane Blair | Loretta Sanchez | Hesitation Kills: A Female Marine Officer's Combat Experience in Iraq | |
| July 23, 2011 | Sally Jacobs | Ken Walsh | The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father | Barack Obama, Sr. |
| July 30, 2011 | Joby Warrick | Yochi Dreazen | The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA | |
| August 7, 2011 | Amanda Foreman | Eric Foner | A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War | Britain in the American Civil War |
| August 13, 2011 | Jay Bahadur | Clifford May | The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World | Piracy in Somalia |
| August 20, 2011 | Steven Brill | Diane Ravitch | Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools | |
| August 27, 2011 | Ronald Bishop | Deborah Tannen | More: The Vanishing of Scale in an Over-the-Top Nation | |
| September 4, 2011 | Randall Kennedy | April Ryan | The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency | |
| September 10, 2011 | Dana Priest | Douglas Feith | Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State | |
| September 17, 2011 | Sylvia Nasar | Gillian Tett | Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius | History of economic thought |
| September 24, 2011 | Jim Lehrer | Gloria Borger | Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates from Kennedy-Nixon to McCain-Obama | United States presidential election debates |
| October 1, 2011 | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith | Anne Gearan | The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics | |
| October 8, 2011 | Susan Herman | Viet Dinh | Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy | |
| October 17, 2011 | Daniel Yergin | Dina Cappiello | The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World | Energy industry |
| October 22, 2011 | Nicholas Wapshott | Matthew Bishop | Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics | John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek |
| October 29, 2011 | Bill Vlasic | Matt Blunt | Once Upon a Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America's Big Three Automakers - GM, Ford, and Chrysler | General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010 |
| November 5, 2011 | Mary Gabriel | Bertell Ollman | Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution | Karl Marx, Jenny von Westphalen |
| November 14, 2011 | Corey Robin | S.E. Cupp | The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin | Conservatism |
| November 21, 2011 | Pat Buchanan | Ralph Nader | Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? | |
| November 26, 2011 | Clifton Truman Daniel | Margaret Hoover | Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman 1919-1943 | Bess Truman, Harry Truman |
| December 3, 2011 | Max Hastings | Toby Harnden | Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 | World War II |
| December 10, 2011 | Niall Ferguson | Susan Jacoby | Civilization: The West and the Rest | |
| December 17, 2011 | Robert Guest | Cecilia Kang | Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism | |
| December 24, 2011 | Conor O'Clery | Thomas Blanton | Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union | Dissolution of the Soviet Union |
| December 31, 2011 | Michael Gazzaniga | Sally Satel | Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain | Neuroscience |