# List of After Words interviews first aired in 2016

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, 2016 | Karl Rove | Richard Brookhiser | The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters | William McKinley, William McKinley presidential campaign, 1896, 1896 United States presidential election |
| January 9, 2016 | James Rosen | Dana Perino | Cheney One on One: A Candid Conversation with America’s Most Controversial Statesman | Dick Cheney |
| January 16, 2016 | Mei Fong | Evan Osnos | One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment | One-child policy |
| January 23, 2016 | Tom Daschle and Trent Lott | J.C. Watts | Crisis Point: Why We Must-and How We Can-Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America | |
| January 30, 2016 | Eddie Glaude | Marc Morial | Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul | |
| February 6, 2016 | Matt Lewis | S. E. Cupp | Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win Elections (and How It Can Reclaim Its Conservative Roots) | |
| February 13, 2016 | Barry Latzer | Samuel Bieler | The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America | |
| February 20, 2016 | Cory Booker | Robert A. George | United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good | |
| February 27, 2016 | Michael Hayden | James Woolsey | Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror | |
| March 5, 2016 | E. J. Dionne | Juan Williams | Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond | |
| March 12, 2016 | Michael Eric Dyson | April Ryan | The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America | |
| March 19, 2016 | John Yoo | Victoria Toensing | Liberty’s Nemesis: The Unchecked Expansion of the State | |
| March 26, 2016 | Nancy Cohen | Kim Azzarelli | Breakthrough: The Making of America's First Woman President | |
| April 2, 2016 | Mary Frances Berry | Spencer Overton | Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy | |
| April 9, 2016 | J.C. Watts | Kevin Merida | Dig Deep: 7 Truths to Finding Strength Within | |
| April 16, 2016 | Ellen Malcolm | Maxine Waters | When Women Win: Emily’s List and the Rise of Women in American Politics | EMILY's list |
| April 23, 2016 | Sue Klebold | Mary Giliberti | A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy | |
| April 30, 2016 | Steve Case | John Delaney | The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future | |
| May 7, 2016 | Peter Marks | Bethany McLean | Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America | Bob Benmosche, American International Group |
| May 14, 2016 | Don Watkins | Diana Furchtgott-Roth | Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality | |
| May 21, 2016 | Shaka Senghor | Paul Butler | Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison | |
| May 28, 2016 | Tamara Draut | Amy Goodman | Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America | |
| June 4, 2016 | Mitch McConnell | Lamar Alexander | The Long Game: A Memoir | |
| June 11, 2016 | Barbara Boxer | Amy Klobuchar | The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life | |
| June 18, 2016 | Fawaz Gerges | Geneive Abdo | ISIS: A History | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
| June 25, 2016 | Pamela Haag | William Doyle | The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture | |
| July 2, 2016 | Nathalia Holt | Lisa Rand | Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars | |
| July 9, 2016 | Heather Mac Donald | Delores Jones-Brown | The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe | |
| July 16, 2016 | Darrell Issa | Tom Davis | Watchdog: The Real Stories Behind the Headlines from the Congressman Who Exposed Washington’s Biggest Scandals | |
| July 23, 2016 | Karen Greenberg | Ali Soufan | Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State | |
| July 30, 2016 | Eric Fair | Raha Wala | Consequence: A Memoir | Abu Ghraib prison, Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse |
| August 6, 2016 | Kimberley Strassel | Ginni Thomas | The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech | |
| August 13, 2016 | Dana Loesch | Guy Benson | Flyover Nation: You Can’t Run a Country You’ve Never Been To | |
| August 20, 2016 | Seymour Hersh | Bob Dreyfuss | The Killing of Osama bin Laden | Death of Osama bin Laden |
| August 27, 2016 | Ann Coulter | Tucker Carlson | In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! | Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 |
| September 3, 2016 | Rosa Brooks | Kathleen Hicks | How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon | |
| September 10, 2016 | Alberto Gonzales | Brent Kendall | True Faith and Allegiance: A Story of Service and Sacrifice in War and Peace | |
| September 17, 2016 | Mark Thompson | Arianna Huffington | Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? | |
| September 24, 2016 | Dave Brat | Ed Gillespie | American Underdog: Proof That Principles Matter | |
| October 1, 2016 | John Dickerson | Clarence Page | Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History | |
| October 8, 2016 | Mary Thompson-Jones | Paula Dobriansky | To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect | |
| October 15, 2016 | Sara Goldrick-Rab | Lisa Coico | Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream | |
| October 22, 2016 | Julissa Arce | Doris Meissner | My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive | |
| October 29, 2016 | Tim Wu | Jon Fortt | The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads | |
| November 5, 2016 | Edward Conard | N. Gregory Mankiw | The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class | |
| November 12, 2016 | George Borjas | Edward Alden | We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative | |
| November 19, 2016 | Sebastian Mallaby | Alice Rivlin | The Man who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan | Alan Greenspan |
| November 26, 2016 | Gary Younge | Juleyka Lantigua-Williams | Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives | |
| December 3, 2016 | George Mitchell | Jane Harman | A Path to Peace: A Brief History of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations and a Way Forward in the Middle East | Israeli–Palestinian peace process |
| December 10, 2016 | Eugene Soltes | Robert Khuzami | Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal | White-collar crime |
| December 17, 2016 | Jason Brennan | David Boaz | Against Democracy | |
| December 24, 2016 | Ellen Silbergeld | Dan Glickman | Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers | |
| December 31, 2016 | Joann Lublin | Jay Newton-Small | Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World | |