Fraud of the Century
Subtitle: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: February 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780743223867
Subjects: American history; Political Process - Political Parties; History; Corrupt practices; United States; History - General History; History - U.S.; Political History; History: World; USA; United States - Reconstruction Period (1865-1877); Hayes, Rutherford Birchard; History / United States / General; Tilden, Samuel J; Contested elections; Presidents; United States - General; 1876; 19th century; Election; Elections
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.