List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2017

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Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work." [1]

Original air date
(Links to video)		Interviewee(s)Comments
January 1, 2016 Ronald Shafer Featured discussion of Shafer's book The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” Changed Presidential Elections Forever.
January 8, 2017 Rosemary Stevens Featured discussion of Stevens's book A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau.
January 15, 2017 Maya MacGuineas Featured discussion of MacGuineas's experiences as president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
January 22, 2017 Benjamin Ginsberg Featured discussion of Ginsberg's book What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People.
January 29, 2017 John Nixon Featured discussion of Nixon's book Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein.
February 5, 2017 Heather McGhee Featured discussion of McGhee's experiences as president of the think tank Demos, and her friendship with a caller to C-SPAN's Washington Journal program who asked her how he could become less prejudiced.
February 12, 2017 Edward Jay Epstein Featured discussion of Epstein's book How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft.
February 19, 2017 Barbara Feinman Todd Featured discussion of Todd's book Pretend I'm Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp.
February 26, 2017 Alexandra Wolfe Featured discussion of Wolfe's book Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story.
March 5, 2017 Brody Mullins Featured discussion of Mullins's Wall Street Journal story, "The Rise and Fall of a K Street Renegade", about former lobbyist Evan Morris.
March 12, 2017 Sandra Navidi Featured discussion of Navidi's book SuperHubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World.
March 19, 2017 Sheelah Kolhatkar Featured discussion of Kolhatkar's book Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street.
March 26, 2017 Thomas Sowell Featured discussion of Sowell's career and retirement.
April 2, 2017 Michael Doran Featured discussion of Doran's book Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East.
April 9, 2017 John Farrell Featured discussion of Farrell's book Richard Nixon: The Life.
April 16, 2017 United States Senate Youth Program
April 23, 2017 David McCullough Featured discussion of McCullough's book The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For.
April 30, 2017 Brad Snyder Featured discussion of Snyder's book The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism.
May 7, 2017 Chris Cavas Featured discussion of the U.S. Navy's Fat Leonard scandal.
May 14, 2017 Mark Cheathem Featured discussion of Cheathem's book Andrew Jackson, Southerner.
May 21, 2017 T.R. Reid Featured discussion of Reid's book A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System.
May 28, 2017 Malcolm Nance Featured discussion of Nance's books The Plot to Hack America and Hacking ISIS.
June 4, 2017 Thomas Hazlett Featured discussion of Hazlett's book The Political Spectrum.
June 11, 2017 Paul Sparrow Featured discussion of Sparrow's role as director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.
June 18, 2017 David Garrow Part one of a discussion on Garrow's book Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama .
June 25, 2017 Robert Caro Featured discussion of Caro's audiobook On Power, and his experience writing the five-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson .
July 2, 2017 Pat Buchanan Featured discussion of Buchanan's book Nixon’s White House Wars.
July 9, 2017 Brooke Gladstone Featured discussion of Gladstone's book The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in our Time.
July 16, 2017 Manal Al-Sharif Featured discussion of Al-Sharif's book Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening.
July 23, 2017 David Garrow Part two of a discussion on Garrow's book Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama .
July 30, 2017 Mark Bowden Featured discussion of Bowden's book Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam.
August 6, 2017 Cate Lineberry Featured discussion of Lineberry's book Be Free or Die, about the life of Robert Smalls.
August 13, 2017 Paul Butler Featured discussion of Butler's book Chokehold: Policing Black Men.
August 20, 2017 Carl Cannon Featured discussion of Cannon's book On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time.
August 27, 2017 Tom Ricks Featured discussion of Ricks's book Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.
September 3, 2017 Anthony Clark Featured discussion of Clark's book The Last Campaign: How Presidents Rewrite History, Run for Posterity & Enshrine Their Legacies.
September 10, 2017 Adam AndrzejewskiFeatured discussion of Andrzejewski's role as the founder of the watchdog organization OpenTheBooks.
September 17, 2017 Randall Eliason Featured discussion of Eliason's role as a federal prosecutor.
September 24, 2017 Ann Telnaes Featured discussion of Telnaes' experience as an editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post.
October 1, 2017 Scott Greenberger Featured discussion of Greenberger's book The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur.
October 8, 2017 Wil Hylton Featured discussion of Hylton's New York Times Magazine article "Down the Breitbart Hole".
October 15, 2017 William Taubman Featured discussion of Taubman's biography of Mikhail Gorbachev.
October 22, 2017 Sherman Gillums, Jr. Featured discussion of Gillums' role as Executive Director of Paralyzed Veterans of America.
October 29, 2017 Allison Stanger Featured discussion of Stanger's experience interviewing political scientist Charles Murray at Middlebury College in Vermont, and the subsequent incident that left her injured.
November 5, 2017 Ron Chernow Featured discussion of Chernow's biography of Ulysses Grant.
November 12, 2017 David Dalin Featured discussion of Dalin's book Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court.
November 19, 2017 Daryl Davis Featured discussion of Davis's efforts to befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan and convince them of the error of their beliefs.
November 26, 2017 Robert W. Merry Featured discussion of Merry's book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century.
December 3, 2017 John Cogan Featured discussion of Cogan's book The High Cost of Good Intentions.
December 10, 2017 Tiffany Wright Featured discussion of Wright's experience as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
December 17, 2017 Gordon S. Wood Featured discussion of Wood's book Friends Divided, about the relationship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
December 24, 2017 Lee Edwards Featured discussion of Edwards' memoir, Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty.

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Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."

References

  1. ↑ "C-SPAN's "Q&A"". YouTube. Retrieved January 2, 2017. Watch Q&A every Sunday night on C-SPAN at 8pm ET. Each week we introduce you to interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work.
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