It appears you are correct about the 17% inflation rate (though the interest rate on some loans were in that ballpark (or higher) during that ‘Carter Malaise’ period), but the peak was higher than 11% for some years from some datasets.
Depending on the dataset used for the years 1973 - 1980 the inflation rate for each year is reported to be:
1973: 8.7% (or 8.8% per some datasets)
1974: 12.3% (or 9.39% per some datasets)
1975: 6.9% (or 11.80% per some datasets)
1976: 4.9% (or 6.72% per some datasets)
1977: 6.7% (or 5.22% per some datasets)
1978: 9.0% (or 6.84% per some datasets)
1979: 13.3% (or 9.28% per some datasets)
1980: 12.5% (or 13.91% per some datasets)
I know. I remember it too well. I knew it was extremely high, but it was not 17% though.