Author: Millard Fillmore
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Robert J. Scarry
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786443405
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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From the time he left office in 1853, President Millard Fillmore has become increasingly shrouded in mystery and stereotyped by anecdotes with slender connections to facts. The real Fillmore was not the weak and boring figurehead many Americans believe he was. This account of Fillmore's life is drawn largely from his family's personal papers, many of which have previously been suppressed or were unavailable or believed lost. It presents Fillmore as his own letters do, and as his friends, family members, and contemporaries saw him, as a distinguished and honorable man who was also a strong and effective president. This comprehensive work includes photographs, a genealogy of the Fillmore family, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index.

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Robert J. Rayback
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 739

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Professor Robert J. Rayback’s history of Millard Fillmore is still the best biography of the 13th President of the United States. In one of the many unexplained, unfortunate quirks of history, most of the official papers of Fillmore’s administration were destroyed by his son. Scholars have consequently been denied the source material which is so essential to examining and gaining insight into the underlying truth of a Presidency. Regarding Fillmore, the few records that do survive can only be compiled piecemeal, a laborious task which few have had the stamina to undertake. Thus is the historical importance of Robert J. Rayback’s authoritative biography, which gives documented substance to Fillmore and his three years in office. Thoughtful and objective, Rayback’s balanced portrayal lauds Fillmore’s astuteness, as in sending Matthew Perry to open Japan to trade, and assays his faults, such as agreeing to run on the “Know Nothing” ticket in 1856. We see, as John Lord O’Brian, former regent of the University of the State of New York noted, “a devoted patriot who in all activities sought guidance from his own conscience during the critical events of the mid-nineteenth century.” Julius Pratt of the University of Buffalo concludes from the book that “without Fillmore there could have been no Lincoln.”-Print ed.

Author: Catherine M. Parisian
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027103713X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The First White House Library is the first book to consider the history of books and reading in the Executive Mansion.

Author: Fillmore, Millard
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623765765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Author: Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.)
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: Fillmore, Millard
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623768438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Katherine A.S. Sibley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118732243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 761

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This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First Ladies and the evolution of the position since the 18th century Explores the impact of these women not only on White House responsibilities, but on elections, presidential policies, social causes, and in shaping their husbands’ legacies Brings the First Ladies into crisp historiographical focus, assessing how these women and their contributions have been perceived both in popular literature and scholarly debate Provides concise biographical treatments for each First Lady

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Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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