What are you reading now?

[Laurie Verge]

I'm going to tack this tidbit on here and hope that Dr. McPherson happens upon it. We had a visitor today at Surratt House who was raving about Battle Cry of Freedom. He was assigned it to read in college about five or six years ago, hated history before that, but is now addicted to the Civil War. That's the power of a good book.

About an hour later, a visitor wandered into my office and started raving about Team of Rivals. I must admit that I have avoided that book because I do not have a bend towards politics. However, I have heard so many visitors and our museum volunteers talk about it that I could fake my way through the conversation by throwing in a few comments and nodding my head occasionally.