Millard Fillmore - (American Presidents) by Paul Finkelman (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this eye-opening biography, the legal scholar and historian Finkelman reveals how Millard Fillmore's response to the crisis he inherited in 1850 set the country on a dangerous path that led to the Civil War.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil war</b> <p/>In 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 little-known vice president from upstate New York. <p/>In this eye-opening 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 politics--as would Fillmore himself, after failing to regain the White House under the banner of the anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic Know Nothing Party. <p/>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 age--immigration, religious toleration, and most of all slavery--his myopic vision led to the destruction of his presidency, his party, and ultimately, the Union itself.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Finkelman has delivered an unvarnished but compelling portrait of one of our least remembered but far from insignificant presidents." --<i>Wall Street Journal</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Paul Finkelman</b> is the author of <i>Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History</i> and <i>Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson</i>. The author or editor of more than twenty-five books, he is a distinguished professor at Albany Law School and a noted specialist in American legal history, race, and constitutional law. He lives in Slingerlands, New York.</p>
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