Millard Fillmore
Subtitle: Biography of a President (Signature Series)
Publisher: American Political Biography Press
Published: April 1992
Place of publication: Newtown, CT
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780945707042
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; Presidents & Heads of State
Table of contents: title: 1. "If thee has an ambition for distinction..."; title: 2. The Trojan horse; title: 3. Buffalonian; title: 4. A new departure; title: 5. Antimason into Whig; title: 6. Nascent rebellion; title: 7. At the altar of Mammon; title: 8. Nativism and defeat; title: 9. The comptrollership: marking time; title: 10. The road back to Washington; title: 11. "We could put up a cow..."; title: 12. Toward the compromise of 1850; title: 13. President Fillmore wrecks the omnibus; title: 14. Warfare: the bolt of the "Silver Greys"; title: 15. The great silence; title: 16. The lure of the East; title: 17. Fillmore obstructs Manifest Destiny; title: 18. Self-sacrifice: "The hopes of good men"; title: 19. Webster and the Baltimore convention; title: 20. Retirement to grief; title: 21. National Whigs find a host; title: 22. Candidate of the know-nothings; title: 23. Spectator; title: 24. First citizen of Buffalo