Chester good biography books

Garfield, Arthur found his life transformed just four months into his term, when an assassin shot and killed Garfield, catapulting Arthur into the presidency. The assassin was a deranged man who thought he deserved a federal job through the increasingly corrupt "spoils system. His opportunity came in the winter ofwhen he pushed through the Pendleton Act, which created a professional civil service and set America on a course toward greater reforms in the decades to come.

Chester Arthur may be largely forgotten today, but Zachary Karabell eloquently shows how this unexpected president-of whom so little was expected-rose to the occasion when fate placed him in the White House. Chester Alan Arthur. Weaving the Julia Sand letters into the narrative provided a great story line. Rainman said:. January 13, at am.

If you like The Great Bridge, you should try Mr. January 13, at pm. Surprisingly, I had not heard of this one! Yet another American landmark that was an extremely long time coming. There are probably others as well, but those top my list once I get away from biographies. December 7, at am. I have not read C. A by Karabell yet. August 17, at am.

I am a little late to the party — I only recently discovered your great website, after you had already finished your first pass through the presidents. I was appalled enough to fire off my first-ever Amazon review, though I doubt anyone will care much since the book is already two years old and the author has likely long since moved on to some other project.

Margaret said:. InShelley Winters helped him get a contract from Universal Studios. He made his chester good biography books debut that same year in the movie The Redhead from Wyoming. Over the next three years, he played in a series of movies, but still had to work odd jobs to support his family. While delivering flowers, he heard he had landed the role of Chester Goode, the limping, loyal assistant of Marshal Matt Dillon James Arness on the new television series Gunsmoke.

According to the Archive of American Television interview with Weaver, the producer had him in mind for Chester, but could not locate him, and was delighted when he showed up to audition. Never having heard the radio show, Weaver gave Chester's "inane" dialog his best "method" delivery. Disappointed in his delivery, however, the producer asked for something humorous, and resurrecting "a dialect from some lost county in Oklahoma," Weaver nailed it.

His character's limp came about when the producer pointed out that sidekicks usually exhibit some diminishing trait that makes them less heroic than the star. To keep from losing the part, college decathlon champion Weaver settled on using a stiff leg, something "simple and consistent," allowing him still to perform all the actions needed in a Western.

InWeaver appeared as Commander B. Having become famous as Chester, he was next cast in an offbeat supporting role in the Orson Welles film Touch of Evil[ 7 ] in which he played a face-twisting, body-contorting eccentric employee of a remote motel who nervously repeated, "I'm the night man. In that episode, Weaver's character is trapped inside his own revolving nightmare, repeatedly being tried, sentenced, and then executed in the electric chair.

Decades earlier, as a student at Oklahoma University in the mids, it was Weaver who had introduced Clint's parents, Rance Howard and Jean Speegle Howardto one another when the three of them were theater students at OU. His frequent use of the affirming Southernism"There you go," became a catchphrase for the show. During the series, inWeaver also appeared in Duela television movie directed by Steven Spielberg.

Spielberg selected Weaver based on the intensity of his earlier performance in Touch of Evil. Weaver was also a recording artist, with most of his tracks being spoken-word recordings with musical accompaniment. He released several singles and albums between andmost notable of which was his eponymous Im'press Records LP inthe cover of which featured a portrait of Weaver in character as McCloud; it was the first of seven albums he recorded.

Chester good biography books

From toWeaver was president of the Screen Actors Guild. His later series during the s both of which lasted only one season were Stone in which Weaver played a Joseph Wambaugh -esque police sergeant turned crime novelist and Buck James in which he played a Texas-based surgeon and rancher. He portrayed a Navy rear admiral for 22 episodes of a — series, Emerald Point N.

Inhe portrayed a husband who physically abuses his wife portrayed by Sally Struthers in the made-for-TV movie Intimate Strangersone of the first network features to depict domestic violence. InWeaver played the trail boss R. Poteet in the television miniseries Centennialin the installment titled "The Longhorns". Weaver also appeared in many acclaimed television films, including Amber Waves with Kurt Russell.

Also inhe portrayed Dr. Weaver received probably the best reviews of his career when he starred in the film Bluffing It, in which he played a man who is illiterate. He also hosted segments for the Encore Westerns premium cable network in the late s and early to mids. His role on the show was cut short by his death. Weaver had an interest in the UFO topic and in narrated a daily toll-charge phone message service called the UFO Contact Newsline, produced in his basement and run by his son Rusty Weaver and partner Paul Shepherd.

Each three minute report featured "late-breaking news of human contact with extraterrestrials, inside stories of UFO sightings and scientific verification of alien visits to planet Earth" according to a story in the Los Angeles Times. Weaver was reported to have been a vegetarian from for ethical reasons; however, he did occasionally eat fish.

Weaver's home in Ridgway, Coloradoexemplified his commitment to preserving the environment. In the late s, he commissioned architect Michael Reynolds to design and build his new residence, which incorporated into its construction various recycled materials, such as old automobile tires and discarded cans, and featured passive solar power and other ecotechnologies.

Weaver called his home Earthship, the same name given to the design concept pioneered by Reynolds and advanced by him as part of what was then a chester good biography books interest in " sustainable architecture " by environmentalists. Weaver and his family lived at Earthship for over 14 years, until She was one of 10 people killed in the incident.

Weaver was a lifelong active Democrat. Weaver was an environmentalist, who promoted the use of alternative fuels, such as hydrogen and wind power, through the Institute of Ecolonomics, a nonprofit environmental organization he established in in Berthoud, Colorado. Intraveling was full of danger. Omnibus accidents were commonplace. Rival police forces watched and argued over who should help.

Pickpockets, drunks and kidnappers were all part of the daily street scene in old New York. Yet somehow, they endured and transformed a trading post into the Empire City. When she refused to step off the bus, she was assaulted by the conductor who was aided by a NY police officer. On February 22,Elizabeth Jennings v. Third Avenue Rail Road case was settled.

This is the story of what happened that day. Yet few historians know of Elizabeth Jennings or the impact she had on desegregating public transit. On the morning of July 30,President Chester A.