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Louis L. Picone

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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 and 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 a Chairman of the Grover Cleveland Presidential Library & Museum at his birthplace in in Caldwell, NJ. He holds a Masters in History and also teaches at William Paterson University

Louis has spoken widely on the topic of the presidents and the places we commemorate them, including Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Ulysses' Grant's Tomb, Grover Cleveland birth ...more

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	The President Is Dead!: The Extraordinary Stories of Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond 4.17 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grant's Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon 4.14 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire 4.57 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Presidents Were Born: The History & Preservation of the Presidential Birthplaces 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey From Clovis by William Tadao Ebihara, Louis L. Picone (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A quick, engaging read as a juvenille non-fiction (which I did not realize when I purchased it) so not as in-depth and nuanced as I had expected. The photographs are excellent from the State of Washington archives
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This is a fascinating new insight of Lewis & Clark's journey with important unheard perspectives. My suggestion woudl be to read Undaunted Courage first as Vast Enterprise is not as much a narrative flow, but rather offers new voices. Kudos to Fehrma ...more
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wonderful & unique perspective of living on the Klondike in the years after the gold rush heydey
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