Full name: Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President

Author: Robert J. Rayback Year: 1959 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781520467320 9780945707042 152046732X 0945707045

For some reason hard to understand, the historically minded public has had to wait 85 years since the death of a president for an adequate biography. This gap has now been filled with Dr. Rayback's authoritative work on Millard Fillmore. It is no eulogy, rather it is honest and unprejudiced, describing and assaying his defects of judgment such as his leadership of two abused parties at the beginning and at the end of his political career, but asserting that all this -- even his approval of the fugitive slave law -- was far outweighed by his moral convictions and concrete actions against the institution of human slavery. To Western New Yorkers this book will of course have special appeal, but it is by no means unduly concerned with local history; it is the story of a life not only of dignity and integrity but of permanent achievement on both the local and national scene. The Buffalo Historical Society takes pride in this presentation of its first president. Similar books: America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer The Amateur by Edward Klein No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Grant by Ron Chernow The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner East West Street by Philippe Sands Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin Destiny and Power by Jon Meacham Three Days in Moscow by Bret Baier The Gatekeepers by Chris Whipple Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X The Assassination of Fred Hampton by Jeffrey Haas Blood Feud by Edward Klein Nixonland by Rick Perlstein