Every week, Q & A introduces you to remarkable people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science and technology. Former Booknotes host and C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb leads his guests in hour-long conversations about their lives and work. Lamb hosted Booknotes for 15 years, helping it earn the title of longest-running book program on television.

Every week, Q & A introduces you to remarkable people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science and technology. Former Booknotes host and C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb leads his guests in hour-long conversations about their lives and work. Lamb hosted Booknotes for 15 years, helping it earn the title of longest-running book program on television.

On November 18th, Senator Robert Byrd will become the longest serving member of the House or Senate in the history of the country. On the Sunday prior to that anniversary, Q&A will interview Raymond Smock, the Director of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, located at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Our guest is Melvin Urofsky, whose latest book is a biography of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. The author is a visiting professor of history at American University. Before that he taught at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1974. He is the author or editor of 52 books. Louis Brandeis was 59 years old when he was named to the Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

This week on Q&A, our guest is Ken Auletta, bestselling author whose newest book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It will be published by Penguin next week. The book is a biography of the company Google. It tells the story of the company's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and the many other people involved in the company's success. Ken Auletta is the author of ten other books, including the bestsellers Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way.

Our guest is Barry Black, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. Chaplain Black is a retired U.S. Navy Admiral, serving 27 years culminating in the position of Chief of Navy Chaplains. He became the 62nd Chaplain of the U.S. Senate in July, 2003. Chaplain Barry Black talks about his youth in Baltimore as one of eight children whose mother struggled financially. His story is told in his 2006 book From the Hood to the Hill.

Our guest is S.E. Cupp, author, columnist, and television commentator. On TV, she appears regularly on Fox programs like Hannity & Colmes and Redeye with Greg Gutfeld as well as CNN's Reliable Sources among others. She is co-author of the book Why You're Wrong About the Right and will have her second book published next spring called Losing Our Religion.

Our guest is Pulitzer Prize Winning author Tracy Kidder. His newest book is called Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness. It's the story of a young man from Burundi who comes to the United States after narrowly escaping civil war and genocide in his home country. With little money and few English skills, he works delivering groceries, sleeping in Central Park. Eventually, he meets people who help me in his quest to become a doctor.

On Q&A, a preview and behind the scenes look at C-SPAN's new documentary on the Supreme Court. All nine justices, as well as two retired justices, have been interviewed to tell this story of how the Supreme Court operates and to give listeners an unprecedented look inside the building in which they do their work. Executive Producer Mark Farkas is the guest.

Our guest is Richard Baker who retired last month after 34 years as Historian of the United States Senate. Mr. Baker began his tenure in 1975 when the office of Senate Historian was established. By Senate Resolution, he was recently named Historian Emeritus. He is also the curator for the exhibition gallery of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center which opened late last year.