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Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876

Name: Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
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SKU: 9780743255523
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Contributors:

Roy Jr. Morris

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Political Science, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

United States, Political Process, Conspiracy Theories

Book Topic:

19th Century, Campaigns & Elections

Series:

A Political Memoir Bestseller

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Release Date:

2004-03-01

ISBN 13:

9780743255523

Weight:

0.97 lbs

Size:

8.55 x 5.58 x 0.80 inches

Pages:

320

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The bitter 1876 contest between Ohio Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes and New York Democratic Governor Samuel Tilden was the most sensational and corrupt presidential election in American history. It was also, in many ways, the final battle of the Civil War. Although Tilden received some 265,000 more popular votes than his opponent, and needed only one more electoral vote for victory, contested returns in three southern states still under Republican-controlled Reconstruction governments ultimately led to Hayes's being declared the winner after four tense months of brazen political intrigue and threats of violence that brought armed troops into the streets of the nation's capital. In this major work of popular history and scholarship, Roy Morris, Jr., takes readers to Philadelphia in America's centennial year, where millions celebrated the nation's industrial might and democratic ideals; to the nation's heartland, where Republicans refought the Civil War by waging a cynical "bloody shirt" campaign to tar the Democrats as the party of disunion and rebellion; and finally into the smoke-filled back rooms of Washington, D.C., where the will of the people was thwarted and the newly won rights of four million former slaves were ignored, leading to nearly ninety years of legalized segregation in the South.

About the Author
Roy Morris, Jr., is the author of The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War, as well as biographies of Ambrose Bierce and General Phil Sheridan. A former political correspondent, he lives in Chattanooga, Tennesse

Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876

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