ISBN: 9780743255523

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 A… Mehr…

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. Books, [PU: Simon & Schuster, Scribner]<

2004, ISBN: 0743255526

Kartoniert / Broschiert Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Simon & Schuster]

ISBN: 9780743255523

Find Fraud of the Century by Roy Morris, Jr. in Paperback and other formats in History > United States - 19th Century. History 9780743255523, Simon & Schuster

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Find Fraud of the Century by Roy Jr. Morris in Paperback and other formats in History > United States - 19th Century. History 9780743255523, Simon & Schuster

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