Title: Great Info, Mediocre Writing
Product review: Some of the reviews have covered the things I myself have noticed about this book. It does read like one long pamphlet, or an extensive student report. It is not the best written biography I have ever read, to be sure - the author is no David McCullough. Sometimes I wondered where the editor was. That said, however, if you like a lot of personal detail in a biography, this one is jam-packed with it. By the end, I felt I knew the man, had a better grasp of the era, and had a far greater appreciation of Fillmore's presidency and the issues he faced than before.Five stars for amount of information. Three stars for the writing itself. So four stars. In the end I learned a lot and was glad I had read the book.
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