The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President
by George Pendle
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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 show more 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 sparkle to an unfairly tarnished reputation. show lessTags
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A very funny book made up of mostly false stories about the life of Millard Fillmore. Read it for the humor, not the history.
My bad - Thought I was buying a real book, not a bathroom reader.
It proves that one can rush when buying a book sales. Naturally I never finished it..
It proves that one can rush when buying a book sales. Naturally I never finished it..
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Millard Fillmore; Abigail Powers Fillmore
- Important places
- New York, USA; Albany, New York, USA; Buffalo, New York, USA; Cayuga County, New York, USA; Washington, D.C., USA
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.6 — History & geography History of North America United States Antebellum Era (1845-1857)
- LCC
- E427 .P46 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 By period Middle nineteenth century, 1845/1848-1861 Fillmore's administration, July 9, 1850-1853
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.22)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
