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The Unexpected President The Life and Times of Chester A Arthur The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur

Name: The Unexpected President The Life and Times of Chester A Arthur
Author: Scott S. Greenberger

Auteur: Scott S. Greenberger

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Scott S. Greenberger

Engels
Paperback
9780306922701
27 juni 2019
336 pagina's

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The life and times of the 21st president of the United States--who surprised everyone with his anti-corruption agenda--and assumed office after President James Garfield died from an assassin's bullet .

Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority of his fellow citizens but by his own conscience. As President James A. Garfield struggled for his life, Arthur knew better 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.

A mysterious young woman deserves much of the credit for Arthur's remarkable transformation. Julia Sand, a bedridden New Yorker, wrote Arthur nearly two dozen letters urging him to put country over party, to find "the spark of true nobility" that lay within him. At a time when women were barred from political life, Sand's letters inspired Arthur to transcend his checkered past--and changed the course of American history.

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.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 27 juni 2019
Aantal pagina's: 336
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Hoofdauteur: Scott S. Greenberger
Hoofduitgeverij: Da Capo Press Inc

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 150 mm
Product hoogte: 26 mm
Product lengte: 226 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 24 mm
Verpakking lengte: 226 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 686 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Geschiedenis

Historisch

Politiek

Politieke structuur

Politieke leiders & Leiderschap

Politiek

Periodes

Moderne tijd (1800-1945)

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

Boeken
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Taal: Engels
Periode: ca. 1800-1910
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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