A President’s Day Salute to Chester A. Arthur: The Accidental President who Put Country over Party and Drained a Real (Metaphorical) Swamp

Michael Austin
7 min readFeb 17, 2020

For most people, the name Chester A. Arthur will conjure up . . . well, nothing. Our twenty-first president is mainly remembered for not being remembered for anything. A 2014 study published in Science asked five hundred American adults to write down as many…

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Michael Austin

Michael Austin is a former English professor and current academic administrator. He is the author of We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America’s Civic Tradition