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020			_a9780306823893 (hardback)
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084			_aBIO010000 _aHIS036040 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aGreenberger, Scott S.,
245	1	4	_aThe unexpected president : _bthe life and times of Chester A. Arthur / _cScott S. Greenberger.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bDa Capo, _c2017.
300			_ax, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520	2		_a"An exquisitely written, comprehensive biography of Chester A. Arthur, our virtually forgotten 21st president, who unexpectedly occupied the nation's highest office and surprised everyone with his moral character and reformist policies"--Provided by publisher.
520	2		_a"When President James Garfield was shot, no one in the United States was more dismayed than his Vice President, Chester Arthur. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and his fellow citizens but by his own conscience. From his promising start, Arthur had become a political hack, a shill for Roscoe Conkling, and Arthur knew better even than his detractors that he failed to meet the high standard a president must uphold. And yet, from the moment President Arthur took office, he proved to be not just honest but brave, going up against the very forces that had controlled him for decades. He surprised everyone--and gained many enemies--when he swept house and took on corruption, civil rights for blacks, and issues of land for Native Americans. His short presidency proved to be a turning point of American history, in many ways a preview of our own times, and is a sterling example of how someone can 'rise to the occasion.' This beautifully written biography tells the dramatic, untold story of a virtually forgotten American president. It is the tale of a machine politician and man-about-town in Gilded Age New York who stumbled into the highest office in the land only to rediscover his better self when his nation needed him"--Provided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 245-290) and index.
505	0		_aPrologue -- Elder Arthur -- "This Is the Place" -- Bleeding Kansas -- Playing the Game -- Barracks and Blankets -- The Shoddy Aristocracy -- The Lordly Roscoe -- The Collector -- From Grant to Hayes -- His Fraudulency the President -- "The One I Loved Dearest" -- Dark Horse -- "A Great Deal of Soap" -- "An Ugly Wound" -- A Mysterious Correspondent -- "He Is Our President" -- "A Splendid Henry V" -- A Surprise Visit -- An Attack in Savannah -- "Between Two Stools" -- "Fame is a Bubble" -- Epilogue.
600	1	0	_aArthur, Chester Alan, _d1829-1886.
600	1	0	_aArthur, Chester Alan, _d1829-1886 _xPolitical and social views.
650		0	_aPresidents _zUnited States _vBiography.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1881-1885.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. _2bisacsh
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