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Chester Alan Arthur (Hardcover)
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Chester Alan Arthur (Hardcover)
Series: American Presidents
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The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief
executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system
that nurtured him
Chester Alan Arthur never dreamed that one day he would be
president of the United States. A successful lawyer, Arthur had
been forced out as the head of the Custom House of the Port of New
York in 1877 in a power struggle between the two wings of the
Republican Party. He became such a celebrity that he was nominated
for vice president in 1880-despite his never having run for office
before.
Elected alongside James A. Garfield, Arthur found his life
transformed just four months into his term, when an assassin shot
and killed Garfield, catapulting Arthur into the presidency. The
assassin was a deranged man who thought he deserved a federal job
through the increasingly corrupt "spoils system." To the surprise
of many, Arthur, a longtime beneficiary of that system, saw that
the time had come for reform. His opportunity came in the winter of
1882-83, when he pushed through the Pendleton Act, which created a
professional civil service and set America on a course toward
greater reforms in the decades to come.
Chester Arthur may be largely forgotten today, but Zachary Karabell
eloquently shows how this unexpected president-of whom so little
was expected-rose to the occasion when fate placed him in the White
House.
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