Scott Greenberger is the co-author, with former Senator Tom Daschle, of Critical: What We Can Do about the Health Care Crisis, a New York Times bestseller published in 2008. Greenberger is currently the editor of Stateline, a news website (funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts) that covers state politics and policy for dozens of US newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and USA Today. He was a newspaper reporter for twelve years, first at the Austin American-Statesman and then at the Boston Globe, and has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, GQ, Glamour, Washington Monthly, Moment magazine, and Washington City Paper. He lives in Washington, DC.
"[The Unexpected President] reminds readers of the importance of
the choice for this office."--Choice
"[Greenberger's] vibrant narrative and fetching personal profiles
transform a biography about a largely overlooked political figure
into a suspensefully, well, unexpectedly gratifying read."--Sam
Roberts, New York Times
"A great historical read and a great glimpse of a colorful,
pivotal, oft-overlooked, slice of U.S. history."--Austin
American-Statesman
"A solidly researched and fast-paced monograph that reminds us that
there was more to Arthur than the sideburns."--The Weekly
Standard
"An entertaining, illuminating biography of the 21st president and
the political world in which he lived."--Wall Street Journal
"An excellent page-turning biography."--The Bowery Boys
"By sheer authorly enthusiasm, [Greenberger] manages to rescue
Arthur from his own reputation as an obscure placeholder and put
him before readers as a man who came abruptly into his own best
convictions."--Christian Science Monitor
"Chester A. Arthur, who knew? Scott Greenberger redeems our most
forgotten president from the margins of history with verve and
narrative skill. Arthur lived a life full of twists. His biography
is a story of a moral tumble and a brave quest for redemption.
Greenberger propels us towards his subject, finding the pathos in
his fascinating life, and quietly demands that we give him his
proper due."--Franklin Foer, former editor of The New Republic and
author of World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Techand
How Soccer Explains the World
"Greenberger convincingly presents a machine politician transformed
by the responsibility of high office."--Boston Globe
"Greenberger employs his reportorial talent to tell a story with a
strong narrative arc and makes Chester Arthur come alive on the
page."--The Bennington Banner
"Greenberger has done a fine job with what will likely be the
definitive book on the 21st president."
--Houston Press
"Richly researched, sourced and annotated, this book principally
reveals a neglected president's varied career."--Washington
Times
"Scott Greenberger's sparkling narrative brings to life Chester
Arthur's remarkable journey from lighthearted and cynical scion of
New York's potent Republican machine to probity-minded president
focused on the national interest. It's a poignant tale, as well as
an important historical one, and it is captured here in vivid prose
that dances upon a foundation of probing research."--Robert W.
Merry, author of A Country of Vast Designs
"Scott S. Greenberger has crafted a riveting tale of
nineteenth-century history from what others have skipped over as a
mere historical curiosity. Crisply written and richly evocative,
The Unexpected President is an inspiring account of how a political
hack was transformed in meeting the expectation of the presidency
and rendered a virtuous service to the nation. This is a remarkable
work of historical discovery about a forgotten politician whose
rise above the politics of his time could be a model for our
age."--James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in
Politics, Print, and Power
"Shipwrecks. A crazed assassin. The frantic machinations of a
deadlocked political convention. In this penetrating tale of
madness, blundering, intrigue, and corruption at the height of the
Gilded Age--that era that helped mold our own--Scott Greenberger
gives us a keen and vivid portrait of President Chester Arthur, the
most accidental of American chief executives, and the remarkable
turns of fate that brought him to the White House."--John A.
Farrell, author of Richard Nixon: The Life
"Thoroughly accessible to lay readers and scholars alike...highly
recommended."--Midwest Book Review
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