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Chester Alan Arthur (American Presidents Series)
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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-de...
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