

The Unexpected President
The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
Author: Scott S. Greenberger
Narrator: Paul Heitsch
Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/06/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, Us History, Political Biography
Synopsis
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.