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

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."
| 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 Andrzejewski | Featured 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. |