["Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at Harvard, is an authority on the intimate relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings,a slave on Jefferson's plantation. Ms. Gordon-Reed said one of the reasons she wrote the book was to prove that African Americans could write about white politicians. She has won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.", OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', "Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at Harvard, is an authority on the intimate relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings,a slave on Jefferson's plantation. Ms. Gordon-Reed said one of the reasons she wrote the book was to prove that African Americans could write about white politicians. She has won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.")])]