Millard Fillmore: The American Presidents Series: The 13Th President, 18501853,New

Millard Fillmore: The American Presidents Series: The 13Th President, 18501853,New

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The Oddly Named President Whose Shortsightedness And Stubbornness Fractured The Nation And Sowed The Seeds Of Civil Warin 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 Littleknown Vice President From Upstate New York.In This Eyeopening 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 Politicsas Would Fillmore Himself, After Failing To Regain The White House Under The Banner Of The Antiimmigrant And Anticatholic 'Know Nothing' Party.Though Fillmore Did Have An Eye Toward The Future, Dispatching Commodore Matthew Perry On The Famous Voyage That Opened Japan To The West And On The Central Issues Of The Ageimmigration, Religious Toleration, And Most Of All Slaveryhis Myopic Vision Led To The Destruction Of His Presidency, His Party, And Ultimately, The Union Itself.

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