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Gentleman Boss:

The Life of Chester Alan Arthur
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Knopf, 1975 - Biography & Autobiography - 500 pages
Recounts the life, early career as lawyer and civil servant, and administration of the twenty-first president, tracing his advance from boss-dominated spoilsmanship and scandal to the presidency and disinterested and precedent-setting reform

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A very detailed (at times tediously so) biography of the nation's largely forgotten 21st president. Before his presidency Arthur was the consummate machine politician. There really isn't much to ... Read full review

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Contents

ZACK
3
WITHOUT GOLD AND SILVER
22
A GOOD APPOINTMENT
37
Copyright

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About the author (1975)

Thomas C. Reeves is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside and Senior Fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Institute. The author of The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy and the best-selling A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy, he lives in Franksville, Wisconsin.

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