# List of After Words interviews first aired in 2013

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, 2013 | Martin Duberman | Nick Serpe | Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left | Howard Zinn |
| January 12, 2013 | Michael Austin | David Fontana | That's Not What They Meant!: Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's Right Wing | Founding Fathers of the United States |
| January 19, 2013 | Clayborne Carson | Janet Langhart Cohen | Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| January 26, 2013 | Helaine Olen | Russell Wild | Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry | |
| February 2, 2013 | Jonathan Last | D'Vera Cohn | What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster | |
| February 9, 2013 | John Mackey | Kim Strassel | Conscious Capitalism | |
| February 16, 2013 | Sarah Garland | Marc Lamont Hill | Divided We Fail: The Story of an African-American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation | |
| February 23, 2013 | Ed Whitacre | Stephanie Mehta | American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA | |
| March 2, 2013 | Moisés Naím | Lillian Cunningham | The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be | |
| March 9, 2013 | Ken Stern | Ken Berger | With Charity for All: Why Charities are Failing and a Better Way to Give | |
| March 16, 2013 | Kim Ghattas | Jamie Weinstein | The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power | Hillary Clinton |
| March 23, 2013 | David Burstein | S. E. Cupp | Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World | |
| March 30, 2013 | Martin Clancy, Tim O'Brien | Kimberly Tignor | Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark Cases | |
| April 6, 2013 | Neil Irwin | David Wessel | The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire | |
| April 20, 2013 | Benjamin Wiker | Krissah Thompson | Worshipping the State: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion | |
| April 27, 2013 | Karen Houppert | Jenna Greene | Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice | |
| May 4, 2013 | Vali Nasr | Judith Yaphe | The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat | |
| May 11, 2013 | Christian Caryl | Susan Glasser | Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century | |
| May 18, 2013 | Diana West | Ariel Cohen | American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character | |
| May 25, 2013 | Olympia Snowe | A.B. Stoddard | Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress | |
| June 1, 2013 | Charles Moore | Toby Harnden | Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands | Margaret Thatcher |
| June 8, 2013 | Sally Satel | Dan Vergano | Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience | |
| June 15, 2013 | Carl Hart | Juan Williams | High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society | |
| June 22, 2013 | Laurence Leamer | Neela Banerjee | The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption | Massey Energy |
| June 29, 2013 | Victor Davis Hanson | Kimberly Kagan | The Savior Generals: How Five Commanders Saved Wars that Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq | |
| July 6, 2013 | Michele Swers | Emily Pierce | Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate | Women in the United States Senate |
| July 13, 2013 | Mario Livio | Marty Makary | Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe | |
| July 20, 2013 | Barbara Perry | Vincent Bzdek | Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch | Rose Kennedy |
| July 27, 2013 | Sheila Miyoshi Jager | Scott Snyder | Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea | North Korea–South Korea relations |
| August 3, 2013 | Susan Crawford | Andrew Blum | Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age | Internet access, Internet in the United States |
| August 10, 2013 | Leigh Gallagher | Rich Benjamin | The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving | |
| August 17, 2013 | Joshua Dubler | Josef Sorett | Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison | |
| August 24, 2013 | Elizabeth Greenspan | Ken Feinberg | Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center | |
| August 31, 2013 | Craig Steven Wilder | Joe Madison | Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities | |
| September 7, 2013 | Paul Sabin | Dina Cappiello | The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon and Our Gamble over Earth's Future | Simon–Ehrlich wager |
| September 14, 2013 | Mark Tushnet | Jenna Greene | In the Balance: Politics in the Roberts Court | |
| September 21, 2013 | Emily Miller | Craig Whitney | Emily Gets Her Gun... But Obama Wants to Take Yours | |
| September 28, 2013 | Eric Schlosser | Lynn Davis | Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety | |
| October 5, 2013 | Bob Lutz | Debbie Dingell | Icons and Idiots: Straight Talk on Leadership | |
| October 12, 2013 | Luis Gutierrez | Leslie Sanchez | Still Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill | |
| October 19, 2013 | Richard Dawkins | Sally Quinn | An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist | |
| October 26, 2013 | Ann Dowsett Johnston | Anne Herron | Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol | |
| November 2, 2013 | S. Lochlann Jain | Dr. Marty Makary | Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us | |
| November 9, 2013 | Husain Haqqani | Lisa Curtis | Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding | Pakistan–United States relations |
| November 16, 2013 | Abbe Smith, Vida Johnson | Debbie Hines | How Can You Represent Those People? | |
| November 23, 2013 | Larry Sabato | Craig Shirley | The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy | Assassination of John F. Kennedy |
| November 30, 2013 | Brian Kilmeade | Richard Brookhiser | George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution | |
| December 7, 2013 | Michael Kimmel | Hanna Rosin | Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era | |
| December 14, 2013 | Nicholas Carnes | Kim Dixon | White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making | |
| December 21, 2013 | Heraldo Muñoz | Kim Barker | Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan | Assassination of Benazir Bhutto |
| December 28, 2013 | Peter Gottschalk | Michelle Boorstein | American Heretics: Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance | |