The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President

By George Pendle

Book Overview

Millard Fillmore has been mocked, maligned, or, most cruelly of all, ignored by generations of historians--but no more This unbelievable new biography finally rescues the unlucky thirteenth U.S. president from the dustbin of history and shows why a man known as a blundering, arrogant, shallow, miserable failure was really our greatest leader. In the first fully researched portrait of Fillmore ever written, the reader can finally come face-to-face with a misunderstood genius. By meticulously extrapolating outrageous conclusions from the most banal and inconclusive of facts, The Remarkable Millard Fillmore reveals the adventures of an unjustly forgotten president. He fought at the Battle of the Alamo He shepherded slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad He discovered gold in California He wrestled with the emperor of Japan It is a list of achievements that puts those of Washington and Lincoln completely in the shade. Refusing to be held back by established history or recorded fact, here George Pendle paints an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary man and restores the sparkle to an unfairly tarnished reputation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307339629
• ISBN13: 9780307339621
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Pendle for President!

Pull on your nightcap, drop an extra marshmallow in your cocoa and plump a fresh pillow for teddy - bedtime will never be the same again! If you crave a little excitement before your nine hours of the dreamless then I wholeheartedly recommend Pendle's hilarious romp through one of the more obscure backwaters of American history as the perfect nightcap. This is rib-tickling, tummy-tingling writing of the highest caliber - a...

Fascinating and deeply chucklesome

George Pendle has managed literary alchemy turning a dull base president into gold. He writes so well that each sentence is a masterpiece of surrealist wordsmithery. One could be forgiven for being distracted or even dismissive of the footnotes, but they are as much part of the picture as the main text, and had me laughing out loud regularly. There are flavours of monty python ridiculousness, the flashman novels and the language...

A Brilliant Book, but a Devious Author

George Pendle's biography is, without doubt, the closest we will get to knowing the real Millard Fillmore, as opposed to the dull and forgettable man who has been handed down to us by generations of blinkered historians. The decisive role which Fillmore played in world affairs cannot help but make riveting reading. Unfortunately such excellent results have not come without their cost. Mr. Pendle's theft of the Millard Fillmore...

Millard Rules!

As the author of the comic novel, "Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour," (in which my protagonist puts forth the theory that our 13th President may have been gay) I heartily applaud George Pendle's vivid, if mostly fabricated, appraisal of America's most forgotten president. His book is hilarious, and confirms what most historians already agree upon -- that the most noteworthy aspect of Fillmore's political career was its complete...