Research Catalog

Title

The presidencies of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore / Elbert B. Smith.

Author

Smith, Elbert B.

Publication

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1988.

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Description

xi, 302 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this book Elbert B. Smith disagrees sharply with traditional interpretations of Taylor and Fillmore, the twelfth and thirteenth presidents (from 1848 to 1853). Smith argues that Taylor and Fillmore have been seriously misrepresented and underrated. They faced a terrible national crisis and accepted every responsibility without flinching or directing blame toward anyone else."--Publisher.

Series Statement

American presidency series

Uniform Title

American presidency series.

Alternative Title

Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore.

Subject

• Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
• Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
• United States > Politics and government > 1849-1853

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 287-293.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Progress and paradox -- The price of conquest -- Old Rough and Ready -- The achiever -- The administration -- The statesman -- The crisis -- An undeserved albatross: the Galphin dilemma -- The Omnibus Bill -- The new president -- The compromise -- The nation's leader -- Manifest destiny-- with limits -- The death of a party -- The aftermath -- In retrospect.

ISBN

070060362X (alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^88005722^

OCLC

• 17731452
• SCSB-13378070

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library