# List of After Words interviews first aired in 2005

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, 2005 | Newt Gingrich | Norman Ornstein | Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America | |
| January 9, 2005 | Howard Friel | Ken Adelman | The Record of the Paper: How the 'New York Times' Misreports U.S. Foreign Policy | The New York Times |
| January 16, 2005 | Helen Prejean | Victoria Toensing | The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions | Wrongful execution |
| January 23, 2005 | Craig Shirley | Joseph Trippi | Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All | Republican Party presidential primaries, 1976, Ronald Reagan |
| January 30, 2005 | Melissa Boyle Mahle | Dana Priest | Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA From Iran Contra to 9/11 | The Central Intelligence Agency |
| February 6, 2005 | Essie Mae Washington-Williams | Harold Ford, Jr. | Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond | Strom Thurmond |
| February 13, 2005 | Natan Sharansky | Tom Gjelten | The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror | |
| February 20, 2005 | Doug Wead | Harold Gullan | The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of our Nation's Leaders | |
| February 27, 2005 | William Hague | Martin Turner | William Pitt the Younger | William Pitt the Younger |
| March 6, 2005 | Donald Ritchie | John Dickerson | Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps | |
| March 13, 2005 | Tom Fenton | Roger Mudd | Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All | |
| March 20, 2005 | Ari Fleischer | Karen Hosler | Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House | |
| March 27, 2005 | Jim Wallis | Randy Tate | God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It | |
| April 3, 2005 | Roy Moore | Bill Press | So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom | Glassroth v. Moore |
| April 10, 2005 | Ernestine Bradley | Hadassah Lieberman | The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life | |
| April 17, 2005 | Bob Dole | Rick Atkinson | One Soldier's Story: A Memoir | |
| April 24, 2005 | Jorge Ramos | Linda Chavez | Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History | |
| May 1, 2005 | Linda Greenhouse | Tim O'Brien | Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey | Harry Blackmun |
| May 8, 2005 | Byron York | Clarence Page | The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President--and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time | |
| May 15, 2005 | Michael Eric Dyson | Debra Dickerson | Is Bill Cosby Right: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? | |
| May 22, 2005 | Ronald Radosh | Jack Valenti | Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left | |
| May 29, 2005 | Jack Coughlin | Tony Capaccio | Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper | |
| June 5, 2005 | Zell Miller | John Anderson | A Deficit of Decency | |
| June 12, 2005 | Patricia O'Toole | Tom Daschle | When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House | Theodore Roosevelt |
| June 19, 2005 | Neil Baldwin | Joseph Bottum | The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War | |
| June 26, 2005 | David Rothkopf | James Bamford | Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power | United States National Security Council |
| July 3, 2005 | Robert W. Merry | Harlan Ullman | Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition | |
| July 10, 2005 | Bob Woodward | James Mann | The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat | Mark Felt, Deep Throat |
| July 17, 2005 | Victor Navasky | David Frum | A Matter of Opinion | |
| July 24, 2005 | Asra Nomani | Akbar Ahmed | Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam | |
| July 31, 2005 | Rick Santorum | Kirk Victor | It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good | |
| August 7, 2005 | Kenneth Walsh | Susan Eisenhower | From Mount Vernon to Crawford: A History of the Presidents and Their Retreats | |
| August 14, 2005 | Harvey Kaye | Michael Novak | Thomas Paine and the Promise of America | Thomas Paine |
| August 21, 2005 | Ralph Peters | Anatol Lieven | New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy | |
| August 28, 2005 | Sheldon Hackney | Janet Langhart Cohen | Magnolias Without Moonlight: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration | History of the Southern United States, Politics of the Southern United States |
| September 3, 2005 | Charles Peters | Thomas Fleming | Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing 'We Want Willkie!' Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World | 1940 Republican National Convention |
| September 10, 2005 | Barbara Ehrenreich | Stephen Moore | Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream | |
| September 17, 2005 | Steve Forbes | Alice Rivlin | Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS | Flat tax |
| September 24, 2005 | Tony Blankley | Barbara Slavin | The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? | |
| October 1, 2005 | Andrea Mitchell | Robert Lichter | Talking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels | |
| October 8, 2005 | Chris Whittle | Jay Mathews | Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education | |
| October 15, 2005 | Bing West | Mark Mazzetti | No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah | Second Battle of Fallujah |
| October 22, 2005 | Mary Frances Berry | Juan Williams | My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations | Callie House |
| October 29, 2005 | Thomas P.M. Barnett | Tom Feeney | Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating | |
| November 6, 2005 | Jimmy Carter | Brian Williams | Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis | |
| November 12, 2005 | Bill Richardson | Chuck Todd | Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life | |
| November 19, 2005 | Nathaniel Fick | Andrew Carroll | One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer | United States Marine Corps |
| November 26, 2005 | Bruce Chadwick | Edward Lengel | The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America's First Fight for Freedom | George Washington |
| December 3, 2005 | Mary Mapes | Brent Bozell | Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power | Killian documents controversy |
| December 10, 2005 | Haynes Johnson | Joseph diGenova | The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism | |
| December 17th, 2005 | John Linder | David Wessel | The FairTax Book | FairTax |
| December 24, 2005 | George Weigel | Jon Meacham | God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church | Pope Benedict XVI |
| December 31, 2005 | Janis Karpinski | Douglas Macgregor | One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story | Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse |