Fraud of the Century
Subtitle: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: March 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780743255523
Subjects: United States - 19th Century; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); U.S. Practical Politics; History; History - U.S.; History: American; United States - Civil War; Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations; Political Process - Elections; History / United States / General; History & Theory - General
First sentence: tionalism, of a young woman from Wisconsin who wrote, in full, to the folks back home: "Dear Mother, Oh! Oh!! O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!!!" Ironically, the one American who might have made the best sense of the exhibition, Walt Whitman, despite living right across the Delaware River from Philadelphia in Camden, New Jersey, was not invited to participate in the festivities.