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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Contested elections, Corrupt practices, Election, Elections, History, Political corruption, Presidential candidates, Presidents, Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893., Political campaigns, Large type books, United states, history, 1865-1898, Presidents, united states, election, 19th century, Hayes, rutherford b., 1822-1893, Tilden, samuel jones, 1814-1886Places
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Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
March 2, 2004, Simon & Schuster
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2003, Simon & Schuster
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Fraud of the century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the stolen election of 1876
2003, Thorndike Press
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Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index.
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