Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876

Morris recreates in detail the presidential election that perverted the rule of law and almost rekindled the Civil War.  The election pitted Hayes, an affable born politician and bona fide war hear against Tilden, a bookish lifelong bachelor barrister who once dropped out of Yale because he didn’t like the food.