# List of After Words interviews first aired in 2012

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, 2012 | Jack Abramoff | Eliza Newlin Carney | Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist | |
| January 14, 2012 | Chris Matthews | Sam Donaldson | Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero | John F. Kennedy |
| January 21, 2012 | George Nash | Richard Norton Smith | Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath | |
| January 28, 2012 | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Michael Hirsch | Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power | Foreign policy of the United States |
| February 4, 2012 | Deborah Scroggins | Akbar Ahmed | Wanted Women | Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Aafia Siddiqui |
| February 13, 2012 | Eric Klinenberg | Kim Blankenship | Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone | |
| February 18, 2012 | Ira Shapiro | Bernie Sanders | The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis | |
| February 25, 2012 | Richard Thompson Ford | Suzanne Nossel | Universal Rights Down to Earth | |
| March 3, 2012 | John Lewis Gaddis | Susan Glasser | George F. Kennan: An American Life | George Kennan |
| March 12, 2012 | Maggie Anderson | Krissah Thompson | Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy | Black capitalism |
| March 17, 2012 | Linda Killian | Michael Tomasky | The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents | Independent voters |
| March 24, 2012 | Craig Timberg | Scott Evertz | Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It | |
| March 31, 2012 | Alain de Botton | Chris Hedges | Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion | Atheism and religion |
| April 9, 2012 | Liza Mundy | April Ryan | The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family | |
| April 14, 2012 | Dick Teresi | Sally Satel | The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers - How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death | Ethics of Organ Transplantation |
| April 21, 2012 | Dale Carpenter | David Savage | Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas | Lawrence v. Texas |
| May 5, 2012 | Seth Jones | Kimberly Dozier | Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11 | Al Qaeda |
| May 12, 2012 | Van Jones | Jackie Kucinich | Rebuild the Dream | |
| May 19, 2012 | Jay Nordlinger | Matt Murray | Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World | Nobel Peace Prize |
| May 28, 2012 | Victor Cha | Scott Snyder | The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future | North Korea |
| June 2, 2012 | Steve Coll | Dina Cappiello | Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power | ExxonMobil |
| June 10, 2012 | Madeleine Albright | Ann Blackman | Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 | |
| June 23, 2012 | Katie Pavlich | Major Garrett | Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up | ATF gunwalking scandal |
| June 30, 2012 | Fawaz Gerges | Phyllis Bennis | Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment? | |
| July 7, 2012 | Martha Rosenberg | Stephanie Beasley | Born with a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health | |
| July 14, 2012 | Peter Collier | Angela Stent | Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick | Jeane Kirkpatrick |
| July 18, 2012 | Jonah Goldberg | Nia-Malika Henderson | The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas | |
| July 23, 2012 | Kaitlin Bell Barnett | Judith Warner | Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up | |
| July 28, 2012 | Frederick Harris | Charlton McIlwain | The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics | |
| August 5, 2012 | David Crist | Ellen Laipson | The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran | Iran–United States relations |
| August 12, 2012 | Edward Conard | Michael Ettlinger | Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong | |
| August 18, 2012 | John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky | Linda Killian | Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk | |
| August 26, 2012 | John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher | John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher | Debating Same-Sex Marriage | Corvino and Gallagher interviewed each other about the book they co-wrote, in which they espoused opposing views on Same-sex marriage. |
| September 2, 2012 | Donald Barlett and James Steele | Juan Williams | The Betrayal of the American Dream | |
| September 9, 2012 | Kofi Annan | Katty Kay | Interventions: A Life in War and Peace | |
| September 16, 2012 | Anton Treuer | Jacqueline Pata | Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask | Native Americans in the United States |
| September 22, 2012 | Richard Miniter | Karlyn Bowman | Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him | |
| September 29, 2012 | Sasha Issenberg | Nancy Jacobson | The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns | |
| October 7, 2012 | John Jenkins | Joan Biskupic | The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist | William Rehnquist |
| October 13, 2012 | Marguerite Guzman | Amy Goodman | The Invisible Wounds of War: Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan | |
| October 20, 2012 | Hanna Rosin | Tucker Carlson | The End of Men - and the Rise of Women | |
| October 28, 2012 | David Coleman | James Hershberg | The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis | |
| November 4, 2012 | Salman Khan | Nina Rees | The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined | Khan Academy |
| November 10, 2012 | David Cay Johnston | Jayne O'Donnell | The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" and Other Tricks to Rob You Blind | |
| November 17, 2012 | James Patterson | Daryl Scott | The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America | 1965 in the United States |
| November 25, 2012 | Gautam Mukunda | Richard Brookhiser | Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter | |
| December 1, 2012 | Ray Kurzweil | Ingrid Wickelgren | How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed | |
| December 8, 2012 | Marty Makary | Richard Davies | Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care | |
| December 15, 2012 | Cynthia Lowen | Donna Lieberman | Bully: An Action Plan for Teachers and Parents to Combat the Bullying Epidemic in America | Bullying |
| December 22, 2012 | Craig Whitney | Paul Helmke | Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment | |
| December 29, 2012 | Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick | Michael Kazin | The Untold History of the United States | |