In the first episode of Endgame with Fintan O’Toole , the Review ’s newest podcast, O’Toole welcomes Annette Gordon-Reed, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning history The Hemingses of Monticello , for a conversation about Thomas Jefferson, the legacy of slavery in the United States, the original preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and the fate of the Voting Rights Act.

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Annette Gordon-Reed has been a frequent contributor to The New York Review for the last ten years. Her Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family revised our understanding of Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings, and for the Review she has written about subjects ranging from W.E.B. Du Bois to Hillary Clinton to the history of Texas. She is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard.…