FORGOTTEN HISTORY: #Netflix's miniseries #DeathByLightning with #MatthewMacfadyen & #MichaelShannon tells the story of a long forgotten US Presidential assassination. But how does Pomona rate it?.. https://loveitinpomona.blogspot.com/2025/12/forgotten-history-death-by-lightning.html #uspresidents #JamesAGarfield #ChesterAArthur #CharlesGuiteau #NickOfferman #BettyGilpin #RepublicanParty #GOP #19thCentury #BradleyWhitford #streaming #assassins #uspolitics
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Happy Chet Arthur Day!
On 9/19/1881, Chester A. Arthur succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of James Garfield.
As journalist Alexander McClure would later write, "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe."
Happy Chet Arthur Day!
On 9/19/1881, Chester Alan Arthur succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of James Garfield.
As journalist Alexander McClure would later write, "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe."
Book review #25 for 2024 is Scott S Greenberger's The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A Arthur. A good biography of the 21st President of the United States. His reputation, and the reason for Garfield's murderer, created a cloud over Arthur's assumption of the presidency. ☕☕☕☕review
#POTUS #biography #history #books #bookstodon #chesteraarthur @bookstodon @books
Keep in mind #CharlesGuiteau, who shot Garfield, was a complete nutcase. Truly psychotic. He tried to get a pardon from #ChesterAArthur, the new president after the assassination, because he raised Arthur's salary by making him president. (cro)
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