Top 10 Best "Millard Fillmore" Books

Millard Fillmore

Robert J. Scarry

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Millard Fillmore

Paul Finkelman
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Sean Wilentz

Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore

The oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil war

In the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an uproar over slavery, and it was not clear if a compromise could be found. In the midst of the debate, President Zachary Taylor suddenly took ill and died. The presidency, and the crisis, now fell to the little-known vice president from upstate New York.

In this eye-opening biography, the legal scholar and historian Paul Finkelman reveals how Millard Fillmore's response to the crisis he inherited set the country on a dangerous path that led to the Civil War. He shows how Fillmore stubbornly catered to the South, alienating his fellow Northerners and creating a fatal rift in the Whig Party, which would soon disappear from American politics—as would Fillmore himself, after failing to regain the White House under the banner of the anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic "Know Nothing" Party.

Though Fillmore did have an eye toward the future, di...

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Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour

John Blumenthal

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The Lady and the President

Charles M. Snyder

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Franklin Pierce

Michael F. Holt
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Sean Wilentz

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Millard Fillmore

Dan Santow

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James Buchanan

Jean H. Baker
Arthur M. Schlesinger

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Yo Millard Fillmore!

Will Cleveland
Mark Alvarez
Tate Nation

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Millard Fillmore

Robert J. Rayback
Millard Fillmore

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Millard Fillmore

Mike Venezia

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The Remarkable Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore has been mocked, maligned, or, most cruelly of all, ignored by generations of historians--but no more! This unbelievable new biography finally rescues the unlucky thirteenth U.S. president from the dustbin of history and shows why a man known as a blundering, arrogant, shallow, miserable failure was really our greatest leader. In the first fully researched portrait of Fillmore ever written, the reader can finally come face-to-face with a misunderstood genius. By meticulously extrapolating outrageous conclusions from the most banal and inconclusive of facts, The Remarkable Millard Fillmore reveals the adventures of an unjustly forgotten president. He fought at the Battle of the Alamo! He shepherded slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad! He discovered gold in California! He wrestled with the emperor of Japan! It is a list of achievements that puts those of Washington and Lincoln completely in the shade. Refusing to be held back by established history or recorded fact, here George Pendle paints an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary man and restores the sparkl...

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The Remarkable Millard Fillmore

George Pendle

Millard Fillmore

Presidencies/Z.Taylor & Fillmore (American Presidency (Univ of Kansas Hardcover))

Elbert B. Smith

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