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Fraud of the century, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the stolen election of 1876, Roy Morris, Jr

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Fraud of the century, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the stolen election of 1876, Roy Morris, Jr

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fraud of the century

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bibliography

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50754796

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Roy Morris, Jr

Review

"In this work of popular history and scholarship, acclaimed historian and biographer Roy Morris, Jr., tells the extraordinary story of how, in America's centennial year, the presidency was stolen, the Civil War was almost reignited, and black Americans were consigned to nearly ninety years of legalized segregation in the South." "The bitter 1876 contest between Ohio Republican governor Rutherford B. Hayes and New York Democratic governor Samuel J. Tilden is the most sensational, ethically sordid, and legally questionable presidential election in American history. The first since Lincoln's in 1860 in which the Democrats had a real chance of recapturing the White House, the election was in some ways the last battle of the Civil War, as the two parties fought to preserve or overturn what had been decided by armies just eleven years earlier." "Riding a wave of popular revulsion at the numerous scandals of the Grant administration and a sluggish economy, Tilden received some 260,000 more votes than his opponent. But contested returns in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina ultimately led to Hayes's being declared the winner by a specially created, Republican-dominated Electoral Commission after four tense months of political intrigue and threats of violence. President Grant took the threats seriously: he ordered armed federal troops into the streets of Washington to keep the peace."--Jacket

Sub title

Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the stolen election of 1876

Table Of Contents

Prologue: Election night, 1876 -- American Mecca -- A third-rate nonentity -- Centennial Sam -- A hot and critical contest -- It seemed as if the dead had been raised -- Eight villains to seven patriots -- Epilogue: I still trust the people

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