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Local Author Talk: Louis L. Picone & "The President Is Dead!
Stories of Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials"
2026-07-07 18:30:00
2026-07-07 19:30:00
America/New_York
Local Author Talk: Louis L. Picone & "The President Is Dead!
Roxbury resident/author Louis L. Picone shares from his book how our presidents met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives.
Roxbury Public Library - Large Meeting Room
Tuesday, July 07
6:30pm - 7:30pm
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2026-07-07 18:30:00
2026-07-07 19:30:00
America/New_York
Local Author Talk: Louis L. Picone & "The President Is Dead!
Roxbury resident/author Louis L. Picone shares from his book how our presidents met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives.
Roxbury Public Library - Large Meeting Room
Roxbury Public Library
Large Meeting RoomRoxbury resident/author Louis L. Picone shares from his book how our presidents met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives.
Local resident and author Louis L. Picone will discuss his book The The President Is Dead! It is filled with never-before-told stories, including a suggestion by one prominent physician to resurrect George Washington from death by transfusing his body with lamb’s blood. You may have heard of a plot to rob Abraham Lincoln’s body from its grave site, but did you know that there was also attempts to steal Benjamin Harrison's and Andrew Jackson’s remains? The book also includes “Critical Death Information,” which prefaces each chapter, and a complete visitor’s guide to each grave site and death-related historical landmark. An “Almost Presidents” section includes chapters on John Hanson (first president under the Articles of Confederation), Sam Houston (former president of the Republic of Texas), David Rice Atchison (president for a day), and Jefferson Davis. Exhaustively researched, The President Is Dead! is richly layered with colorful facts and entertaining stories about how the presidents have passed.
Fun Fact: Louis L. Picone spent time working on all his books at Roxbury Library.
About the Author/Presenter: Roxbury resident Louis L. Picone is the award-winning author of Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire, Grant's Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant, The Making of an American Pantheon, and The President Is Dead! The Extraordinary Stories of the Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond. Louis is Chairman of the Grover Cleveland Presidential Library & Museum in Caldwell, NJ. He holds a Masters in History and also teaches at William Paterson University. He has spoken widely about the presidents including the US Grant Symposium, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, White House Historical Association Presidential Sites Summit in Dallas; James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Ohio; and the international conference "U.S. Presidents and Russian Rulers" at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has appeared on various media outlets including C-Span, the Travel Channel, Time Magazine, the BBC, NPR, and the Washington Post.
This program is made possible by the Friends of Roxbury Library. Register online or by calling the library at (973) 584-2400.
AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | History | General | Books & Author Discussion |
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