During our first season, I was fortunate to have Annette Gordon-Reed on the show. Born in Livingston, Texas, in 1958, she teaches both law and history at Harvard. Her book The Hemingses of Monticello won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. The day before we were to record, her person, the writer Christopher Hitchens, died after a long illness, on December 15, 2011. Here is just that first segment, Annette Gordon-Reed speaking about her late friend.

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•  PERSON: Christopher Hitchens