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Final Placement: A Guide to Deaths, Funerals and Burials of Notable Americans
Final placement gives full details, vividly written and systematically presented, of the final hours, the funerals and the burial places of presidents, politicians, musicians, inventors,authors, exploreresartist of stage and screen, captains of industry and others both famous and infamous, who for one reason or another have made a mark upon the national consciousness.
268 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 1982
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About the author
Robert B. Dickerson
4 books9 followersUndergraduate degree Wayne State University with a major in Spanish minor in Latin and Ancient Greek.
Graduate work at University of Kentucky, Lexington. Clinical Psychology published with John Way, Ph.D. (VA Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky). MMPI evaluation and administration.
Medical degree from Facultad de Medicina, Valencia, Spain where he lived for six years.
Worked and published with world renowned Thoracic Surgeon Antonio Canto, M.D. (Thorax, et. al.) e.g: "Surgical Stabilization of Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia," (Chest, 1976).
Associate Professor of medicine at the George Washington University Medical School (Washington, DC) where he directed Public Health Policy.
His first book "Final Placement" received many hundreds of reviews including a full 2 pp in the LA TIMES where Carolyn See wrote: "this book is pure pleasure to read." It went into 7 major printings.
It was later nominated as "Book of the Year (history) by the American Library Association.
Final Placement was one of President Reagan's favorite books and Dickerson was invited to The White House as Presidential Historian where he stayed until 2001 serving Presidents Reagan, Bush (41) and Clinton.
In 2010 the Guardian newspaper (London) and "USA TODAY" (2012) both rated Dickerson as the 46th most intelligent person in the world until his place on the list was overtaken by Harvard Professor of Medicine and geneticist Pardis Sabeti, M.D. Many sources cite an ongoing resentful relationship between the two.
Dr. Dickerson has not to date commented on this. He has not acknowledged his place on the Guardian list or the USA Today list. When interviewed by telephone by Journalist Cathy Ostema of Grand Rapids, Michigan he said: "I know of no such list and could not care less."
Currently he only ghost-writes for others or under pseudonyms. His next book "A Serpent in the Summer" may be released in his own name. (telephone interview with DICKERSON, June 2014).
The author of "Locum Tenens" David Kirchinger, M.D., and a close friend of Dickerson estimates that he has written some 30 or more books under pseudonyms and at least 6 of those were major best sellers.
Dickerson's books have been translated into Spanish, (HARLA MEXICO) Italian, Japanese and also released in the UK and Australia by Thomas Nelson Publishers.
AGENT: Gabriele Pantucci, Artellus; Dorset House, Gloucester Pl, London NW1 5AD, United Kingdom
+44 20 7935 6972.
Graduate work at University of Kentucky, Lexington. Clinical Psychology published with John Way, Ph.D. (VA Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky). MMPI evaluation and administration.
Medical degree from Facultad de Medicina, Valencia, Spain where he lived for six years.
Worked and published with world renowned Thoracic Surgeon Antonio Canto, M.D. (Thorax, et. al.) e.g: "Surgical Stabilization of Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia," (Chest, 1976).
Associate Professor of medicine at the George Washington University Medical School (Washington, DC) where he directed Public Health Policy.
His first book "Final Placement" received many hundreds of reviews including a full 2 pp in the LA TIMES where Carolyn See wrote: "this book is pure pleasure to read." It went into 7 major printings.
It was later nominated as "Book of the Year (history) by the American Library Association.
Final Placement was one of President Reagan's favorite books and Dickerson was invited to The White House as Presidential Historian where he stayed until 2001 serving Presidents Reagan, Bush (41) and Clinton.
In 2010 the Guardian newspaper (London) and "USA TODAY" (2012) both rated Dickerson as the 46th most intelligent person in the world until his place on the list was overtaken by Harvard Professor of Medicine and geneticist Pardis Sabeti, M.D. Many sources cite an ongoing resentful relationship between the two.
Dr. Dickerson has not to date commented on this. He has not acknowledged his place on the Guardian list or the USA Today list. When interviewed by telephone by Journalist Cathy Ostema of Grand Rapids, Michigan he said: "I know of no such list and could not care less."
Currently he only ghost-writes for others or under pseudonyms. His next book "A Serpent in the Summer" may be released in his own name. (telephone interview with DICKERSON, June 2014).
The author of "Locum Tenens" David Kirchinger, M.D., and a close friend of Dickerson estimates that he has written some 30 or more books under pseudonyms and at least 6 of those were major best sellers.
Dickerson's books have been translated into Spanish, (HARLA MEXICO) Italian, Japanese and also released in the UK and Australia by Thomas Nelson Publishers.
AGENT: Gabriele Pantucci, Artellus; Dorset House, Gloucester Pl, London NW1 5AD, United Kingdom
+44 20 7935 6972.
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November 19, 2016
this book was ok, but wish there would have been more photos. he does claim to be working on a second edition, so perhaps....
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