Richard Jay Hutto served as White House Appointments Secretary to the Carter Family as well as Chairman of the Georgia Council for the Arts. A former attorney, he is an internationally recognized lecturer as well as the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including The Countess and the Nazis: An American Family's Private War and A Peculiar Tribe of People: Murder and Madness in the Heart of Georgia. He has been featured as an on-air historical expert by Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Investigation Discovery, and Glenn Beck Television and is a regular contributor to Royalty Digest Quarterly. Hutto has written extensively about the marriage of America’s Gilded Age heiresses to titled husbands. He regularly lectures by invitation and onboard cruise ships. He lives with his wife in Winter Garden, Florida. Follow him online at BradleyMartinBall.com.