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Book The Unexpected President

Download or read book The Unexpected President written by Scott S. Greenberger and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 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 vast majority of his fellow citizens but by his own conscience. As President James A. Garfield struggled for his life, Arthur knew better than his detractors that he failed to meet the high standard a president must uphold. 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. This beautifully written biography tells the dramatic, untold story of a virtually forgotten American president. It is the tale of a machine politician and man-about-town in Gilded Age New York who stumbled into the highest office in the land, only to rediscover his better self when his nation needed him.

Book Working at Play

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cindy Sondik Aron
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780195142341
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Working at Play written by Cindy Sondik Aron and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text chronicles the history of vacationing in America since the early 19th century. It is concerned with how, when, and why vacationing came to be part of life, charting this social and cultural institution as it grew from the custom of a small elite in to a mass phenomenon

Book Gollner s Pocket Guide of Saratoga Springs

Download or read book Gollner s Pocket Guide of Saratoga Springs written by E. G. Gollner and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gollner's pocket guide of Saratoga Springs is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative  1876 1949

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1876 1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographic Guide to Dance

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Dance written by New York Public Library. Dance Collection and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heating  Ventilating and Sanitary Plumbing

Download or read book Heating Ventilating and Sanitary Plumbing written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kelly s Directory of Merchants  Manufacturers and Shippers

Download or read book Kelly s Directory of Merchants Manufacturers and Shippers written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 2746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineering Review

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 602 pages

Download or read book Engineering Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Corporation Reporter

Download or read book The National Corporation Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Four Friends

Download or read book Four Friends written by William D. Cohan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kennedy, Jr. among them, by their fellow Andover classmate, New York Times bestselling author William D. Cohan. In his masterful pieces for Vanity Fair and in his bestselling books, William D. Cohan has proven to be one of the most meticulous and intrepid journalists covering the world of Wall Street and high finance. In his utterly original new book, Four Friends, he brings all of his brilliant reportorial skills to a subject much closer to home: four friends of his who died young. All four attended Andover, the most elite of American boarding schools, before spinning out into very different orbits. Indelibly, using copious interviews from wives, girlfriends, colleagues, and friends, Cohan brings these men to life on the page. Jack Berman, the child of impoverished Holocaust survivors, uses his unlikely Andover pedigree to achieve the American dream, only to be cut down in an unimaginable act of violence. Will Daniel, Harry Truman’s grandson and the son of the managing editor of The New York Times, does everything possible to escape the burdens of a family legacy he’s ultimately trapped by. Harry Bull builds the life of a careful, successful Chicago lawyer and heir to his family’s fortune...before taking an inexplicable and devastating risk on a beautiful summer day. And the life and death of John F. Kennedy, Jr.—a story we think we know—is told here with surprising new details that cast it in an entirely different light. Four Friends is an immersive, wide-ranging, tragic, and ultimately inspiring account of promising lives cut short, written with compassion, honesty, and insight. It not only captures the fragility of life but also its poignant, magisterial, and pivotal moments.

Book Arts   Humanities Citation Index

Download or read book Arts Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Annotated Cases

Download or read book New York Annotated Cases written by Wayland Everett Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interferometry of Fibrous Materials

Download or read book Interferometry of Fibrous Materials written by N Barakat and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interferometry of Fibrous Materials shows how interferometric methods can be used in optical, synthetic, and natural fiber analysis. This practical volume features a large number of both color and black and white interferograms to enhance understanding of how interferometry is used to determine a fibre's optical properties.