MWN Episode 042 - The Unexpected President (of 1880)

SCOTT GREENBERGER, author of The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss one of the most unlikely ascents to the presidency in American history. Greenberger answers questions about the nature of The Gilded Age, the Roscoe Conkling political machine in New York, an amazing legal case that will remind listeners of Rosa Parks nearly 100 years before, political hackdom, the fractured Republican conventions of 1880 and 1884, John A. Logan, the assassination of James Garfield, the rise and fall of political spoils, immigration debates that will ring eerily current,  and whether Greenberger feels the presidential performance surveys of historians have been air to Arthur. A relatively unknown part of U.S. history has now seen the light, thanks to Greenberger, so join us tonight on the Midnight Writer News Show.The FREE, UNEDITED archives can be downloaded at MidnightWriterNews.com.