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About this event
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow and other renowned scholars are holding a public book signing at Mississippi State University’s Old Main Academic Center. Chernow recently released a best-selling biography of Ulysses S. Grant, a project that brought him to MSU multiple times for research on the 18th president. Along with copies of “Grant,” Chernow will autograph his best-selling biography of Alexander Hamilton at the Nov. 29 book signing, which also will include former Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams; Harold Holzer, a leading authority on Abraham Lincoln; as well as MSU’s John F. Marszalek, David Nolen and Louis Gallo, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library historians and authors of “The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition.” The book signing is part of the Nov. 30 grand opening of the new Grant Presidential Library and the Frank J. and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Gallery. The Grant Library and Williams Collection both are showcased in a $10 million expansion to Mitchell Memorial Library, which also includes the university’s Congressional and Political Research Center. Click the "Link" below for more information.