# List of After Words interviews first aired in 2015

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 3, 2015 | Chuck Todd | Dan Balz | The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House | Presidency of Barack Obama |
| January 10, 2015 | Cass Sunstein | Susan Cain | Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter | Group decision-making |
| January 17, 2015 | Bret Stephens | Bob Minzesheimer | America in Retreat | Foreign policy of the United States |
| January 24, 2015 | Mike Huckabee | S. E. Cupp | God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy | |
| January 31, 2015 | April Ryan | Ann Compton | The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America | |
| February 7, 2015 | Toby Harnden | Dan Lamothe | Dead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan | |
| February 14, 2015 | David Axelrod | David Frum | Believer: My Forty Years in Politics | |
| February 21, 2015 | Wes Moore | Wendy Spencer | The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters | |
| February 28, 2015 | Allan Ryskind | Tucker Carlson | Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters - Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler | |
| March 7, 2015 | David Morris | Kayla Williams | The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Posttraumatic stress disorder |
| March 14, 2015 | William Bennett | Jonah Goldberg | Going to Pot: Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana is Harming America | Cannabis in the United States |
| March 21, 2015 | Eric Foner | Edna Greene Medford | Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad | The Underground Railroad |
| March 28, 2015 | Peter Wallison | Sudeep Reddy | Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again | |
| April 4, 2015 | Cornel West | Khalil Gibran Muhammad | The Radical King | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| April 11, 2015 | Grover Norquist | Stan Veuger | End the IRS Before It Ends Us: How to Restore a Low Tax, High Growth, Wealthy America | Internal Revenue Service |
| April 18, 2015 | Elaine Lowry Brye | Patricia Kime | Be Safe, Love Mom: A Military Mom’s Stories of Courage, Comfort, and Surviving Life on the Homefront | |
| April 25, 2015 | Colman McCarthy | Medea Benjamin | Teaching Peace | |
| May 2, 2015 | Peter Slevin | Cassandra Clayton | Michelle Obama: A Life | Michelle Obama |
| May 9, 2015 | Jon Krakauer | Katie Baker | Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town | |
| May 16, 2015 | Caroline Fredrickson | Sabrina Schaeffer | Under the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run Over | |
| May 23, 2015 | Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Rodney Slater | Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead | Transportation in the United States |
| May 30, 2015 | Kenji Yoshino | David Savage | Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial | Hollingsworth v. Perry |
| June 6, 2015 | Joseph Stiglitz | Heather McGhee | The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them | |
| June 13, 2015 | Kirsten Powers | Sharyl Attkisson | The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech | |
| June 20, 2015 | Mona Eltahawy | Rangita de Silva de Alwis | Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs A Sexual Revolution | |
| June 27, 2015 | Nelson Denis | Teresite Levy | War Against All Puerto Ricans | |
| July 4, 2015 | Carol Berkin | Maeva Marcus | The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties | The U.S. Bill of Rights |
| July 11, 2015 | Charles Shields | Neely Tucker | Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| July 18, 2015 | Andrea Mays | Jeffery Deaver | The Millionaire and the Bard | Henry Clay Folger, Shakespeare's First Folio |
| July 25, 2015 | Ralph Nader | Andy Shallal | Return to Sender | |
| August 1, 2015 | Michael Tanner | Maya MacGuineas | Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis | |
| August 8, 2015 | Charles Murray | Jared Bernstein | By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission | |
| August 15, 2015 | Claire McCaskill | Susan Glasser | Plenty Ladylike | |
| August 22, 2015 | Arthur Brooks | Michael Steele | The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier and More Prosperous America | |
| August 29, 2015 | Dan-el Padilla Peralta | Liz Robbins | Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League | |
| September 5, 2015 | Kathryn Edin | Gwen Moore | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | |
| September 12, 2015 | Amy Klobuchar | Susan Page | The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland | |
| September 19, 2015 | Joy-Ann Reid | Michael Higginbotham | Fracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons, and the Racial Divide | |
| September 26, 2015 | Bill O'Reilly | Bay Buchanan | Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency | Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan |
| October 3, 2015 | Martha Kumar | Mack McLarty | Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of Power | |
| October 10, 2015 | David Gregory | Sally Quinn | How's Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey | |
| October 17, 2015 | Bethany McLean | Joe Light | Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac |
| October 24, 2015 | John Danforth | Tim Hutchinson | The Relevance of Religion | |
| October 31, 2015 | Sean Naylor | Dana Priest | Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command | Joint Special Operations Command |
| November 7, 2015 | Ben Bernanke | Sherrod Brown | The Courage to Act | |
| November 14, 2015 | Patrick Kennedy | Jim McDermott | A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction | |
| November 21, 2015 | Niall Ferguson | Carla Anne Robbins | Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist | Henry Kissinger |
| November 28, 2015 | Roberta Kaplan | Zoe Tillman | Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA | United States v. Windsor |
| December 5, 2015 | Gilbert M. Gaul | Tom McMillen | Billion-Dollar Ball | |
| December 12, 2015 | Theresa Brown | Debra Hatmaker | The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives | |
| December 19, 2015 | Sir Michael Marmot | Christine Sow | The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World | |
| December 26, 2015 | Darcy Olsen | Kimberly Leonard | The Right to Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Lifesaving Treatments They Need | |