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From the time he left office in 1853 President Millard Fillmore has becomeincreasingly shrouded in mystery and stereotyped by anecdotes with slenderconnections to facts. The real Fillmore was not the weak and boring figureheadmany Americans believe he was.This account of Fillmores life is drawn largely from his familys personalpapers many of which have previously been suppressed or were unavailable orbelieved lost. It presents Fillmore as his own letters do and as his friendsfamily members and contemporaries saw him as a distinguished and honorableman who was also a strong and effective president. This comprehensive workincludes photographs a genealogy of the Fillmore family a chronology abibliography and an index. «
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