What Are You Reading Now

[L Verge]

I thoroughly enjoyed My Thoughts Be Bloody and consider it a highly improved Mad Booths of Maryland. After reading it, I invited Ms. Titone to speak at our Surratt conference. When she arrived that Friday, my heart sunk. She is young, petite, attractive, and delightful to be with -- I immediately thought that our sometimes cantankerous few would eat her and her speech alive!

She was the first speaker on Saturday, marched to the podium, and proceeded to capture her audience in the first five minutes. She did not need to use notes; her speech pattern was near perfect with no hesitations, "uhs," and such; she knew her stuff and taught it very well to over one hundred people in about fifty minutes. She got peppered with questions and had good answers for them all. Nora had been a research assistant to Doris Kearns Goodwin while she worked on Team of Rivals. Mrs. Goodwin could not have handled our audience any better.