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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12708881.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-296) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Election Night, 1876 7 -- 1. American Mecca 19 -- 2. A Third-Rate Nonentity 46 -- 3. Centennial Sam 84 -- 4. A Hot and Critical Contest 118 -- 5. It Seemed as if the Dead Had Been Raised 164 -- 6. Eight Villains to Seven Patriots 200 -- Epilogue: I Still Trust the People 241.".
- catalog extent "311 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Fraud of the century.".
- catalog identifier "0743223861".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fraud of the century.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Fraud of the century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "324.973082 21".
- catalog subject "Contested elections United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "E680 .M85 2003".
- catalog subject "Elections Corrupt practices United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893.".
- catalog subject "Political corruption United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Presidential candidates United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Presidents United States Election 1876.".
- catalog subject "Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Election Night, 1876 7 -- 1. American Mecca 19 -- 2. A Third-Rate Nonentity 46 -- 3. Centennial Sam 84 -- 4. A Hot and Critical Contest 118 -- 5. It Seemed as if the Dead Had Been Raised 164 -- 6. Eight Villains to Seven Patriots 200 -- Epilogue: I Still Trust the People 241.".
- catalog title "Fraud of the century : Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the stolen election of 1876 / Roy Morris, Jr.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".