Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore
Author: Robert J. Scarry
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2001-02-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786450763

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.

The First White House Library

The First White House Library
Author: Catherine M. Parisian
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 027103713X

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