List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2016

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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
(link to video)
Interviewee(s) Comments
January 3, 2016 Michael Ramirez Featured discussion of Ramirez's work as an editorial cartoonist.
January 10, 2016 Marty Baron Featured discussion of Baron's work as editor of The Boston Globe and The Washington Post.
January 17, 2016 Aviva Kempner Featured discussion of Kempner's documentary Rosenwald about the life of Julius Rosenwald.
January 24, 2016 Carlos Lozada Featured discussion of books written by candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
January 31, 2016 Scott Christianson Featured discussion of Christianson's book 100 Documents that Changed the World: From the Magna Carta to Wikileaks.
February 7, 2016 Jesse Holland Featured discussion of Holland's book The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House.
February 14, 2016 Robert Gates Featured discussion of Gates's book A Passion for Leadership.
February 21, 2016 Bill Press Featured discussion of Press's book Buyer's Remorse: How Obama Let Progressives Down.
February 28, 2016 Thomas Schatz Featured discussion of Schatz's experiences as president of Citizens Against Government Waste.
March 6, 2016 Robert Kaplan Featured discussion of Kaplan's book In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond.
March 13, 2016 Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
March 20, 2016 Gabe Roth Executive director of Fix the Court, a judicial advocacy group
March 27, 2016 Robert J. Gordon Featured discussion of Gordon's book The Rise and Fall of American Growth.
April 3, 2016 U.S. Senate Youth Program
April 10, 2016 Mary Sarah Bilder Featured discussion of Bilder's book Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention.
April 17, 2016 Sally Denton Featured discussion of Denton's book The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, about Bechtel.
April 24, 2016 Ron Chernow Featured discussion of the musical Hamilton, which was based on Chernow's 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton.
May 1, 2016 Amy Goodman
May 8, 2016 Zalmay Khalilzad Featured discussion of Khalilzad's memoir, The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World.
May 15, 2016 Adam Hochschild Featured discussion of Hochschild's book Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
May 22, 2016 Michael Kinsley Featured discussion of Kinsley's book Old Age: A Beginners Guide.
May 29, 2016 Betty Koed Featured discussion of Koed's work as Historian of the United States Senate.
June 5, 2016 Tammy Baldwin Featured discussion of Baldwin's experiences as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.
June 12, 2016 Simon Sebag Montefiore Featured discussion of Montefiore's book The Romanovs: 1613-1918.
June 19, 2006 Jo Ann Jenkins Featured discussion of Jenkins's book Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age and her work as CEO of the AARP.
June 26, 2016 Arthur Herman Featured discussion of Herman's book Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior.
July 3, 2016 (Part 1)
July 3, 2016 (Part 2)
Mark Green Featured discussion of Green's book Bright, Infinite Future: A Generational Memoir on the Progressive Rise.
July 10, 2016 Gerard Robinson Featured discussion of Robinson's roles as Florida Education Commissioner and Virginia Secretary of Education.
July 17, 2016 Corey Pegues Featured discussion of Pegues's book Once a Cop: The Street, the Law, Two Worlds, One Man about his career with the New York City Police Department.
July 24, 2016 Jean Edward Smith Featured discussion of Smith's book Bush, about former President George W. Bush.
July 31, 2016 Joshua Kendall Featured discussion of Kendall's book First Dads.
August 7, 2016 James Robertson Featured discussion of After the Civil War: The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America.
August 14, 2016 Clifton Raphael Featured discussion of Raphael's experiences teaching film and television production at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma.
August 21, 2016 Nancy Isenberg Featured discussion of Isenberg's book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.
August 28, 2016 Laurence Leamer Featured discussion of Leamer's books, including his 2016 book The Lynching.
September 4, 2016 Tom Fitton Featured discussion of Fitton's book Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies.
September 11, 2016 David Cay Johnston Featured discussion of Johnston's book The Making of Donald Trump.
September 18, 2016 James Traub Featured discussion of Traub's book John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit.
September 25, 2016 Robert J. Samuelson Featured discussion of Samuelson's writings on economics as a columnist for the Washington Post.
October 2, 2016 John Podhoretz Featured discussion of Podhoretz's writings as a movie reviewer for The Weekly Standard.
October 9, 2016 N/A Q&A was not aired due to the second presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
October 16, 2016 Maureen Dowd
October 23, 2016 J. D. Vance Featured discussion of Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy.
October 30, 2016 Larry Tye Featured discussion of Bobby Kennedy: Making of a Liberal Icon.
November 6, 2016 Candice Millard Featured discussion of Millard's book Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill.
November 13, 2016 Stephen Puleo Featured discussion of Puleo's book American Treasures.
November 20, 2016 Okey Ndibe Featured discussion of Ndibe's book Never Look an American in the Eye: Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American.
November 27, 2016 Edward Larson Featured discussion of Larson's book George Washington, Nationalist.
December 4, 2016 Ronald White Featured discussion of White's book American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant.
December 11, 2016 Brian Gruber Featured discussion of Gruber's book War: The Afterparty - A Global Walkabout Through a Half-Century of U.S. Military Interventions.
December 18, 2016 Robert Strauss Featured discussion of Strauss's book Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents.
December 25, 2016 Mark Danner Featured discussion of Danner's book Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War.

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  1. ^ "C-SPAN's "Q&A"". YouTube. Retrieved December 3, 2014. 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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