Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger bug lover the journalist and author Philip

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Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger bug lover the journalist and author PhilipWhen President James Garfield was shot in 1881, nobody expected Vice President Chester A. Arthur to become a strong and effective president, a courageous anti corruption reformer, and an early civil rights advocate. 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