The Stolen Election: Hayes Versus Tilden - 1876 [Paperback]

Lloyd Robinson (Author)

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Publication Date: May 4, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0765302063 | ISBN-13: 978-0765302069 | Edition: 1st

A screamingly close presidential election. Allegations of fraud. Democrats and republicans, North and South, black and white--all at loggerheads.

With each passing day, the conflict becomes more complex. Hard-eyed political operatives from both parties rush south to fight on every front. "Spin" is everywhere, he truth hardly to be found. From coast to coast, American alternate between anger astonishment, and despair.

One candidate got more popular votes. But he will ultimately be defeated by an astonishing sequence of events--culminating in the tie-breaking vote of a single Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

It's not the year 2000. It's 1876.

It' the election that ended the Civil War--and set the stage fro eighty bitter years of segregation in the South. We live in its shadow still.

Read the full story. You'll never look at American politics the same way again.

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About the Author

LLOYD ROBINSON is a pseudonym of novelist Robert Silverberg. Under his own name, Silverberg is the author of many works of popular history, including Empires of the Dust(Chilton, 1963), Akhneton: The Rebel Pharoah (Chilton, 1964), Ghost Towns of the American West (Ohio University Press, 1968), If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem:Amercan Jews and the State of Israel (Morrow, 1970), The Longest Voyage:Circumnavigation in the Age of Discovery, (Bobbs-Merrill, 1972), The Realm of Prester John (Doubleday, 1972), and The Mound Builders (Ballantine, 1974).

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Forge Books; 1st edition (May 4, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765302063
• ISBN-13: 978-0765302069
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,460,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Flows well, but far from impartial, February 19, 2002

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This review is from: The Stolen Election: Hayes Versus Tilden - 1876 (Paperback)

In this book Lloyd Robinson writes, "What the whites had done to the Negroes was bad enough, but Radical Reconstruction in the South was just as severe a misuse of power." (23) The equation here is: slavery, vs. allowing blacks to vote, a state which lasted a grand total of 15 years before resumption of southern home rule after 1876 led to black disenfranchisement until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The assumption that slavery and Reconstruction were equally repugnant is perhaps enough to undermine this book. Certainly there are few books where Pres. Andrew Johnson comes out quite so well (read Johnson's speeches which Robinson complains made people think he was "rash and foolish"...)

It should be noted that Robinson's basic contention -- Democrat Samuel Tilden was robbed of the Presidency in the 1876 election -- is probably right, though there was lots of foul play on both sides. The book is well written and it is, as the jacket copy points out, useful to remember that all the mess we associate with 2000 has happened before and arguably for higher stakes. If one can ignore Robinson's biases there is a useful narrative here.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE ON AN INTERESTING PERIOD, August 23, 2001

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This review is from: The Stolen Election: Hayes Versus Tilden - 1876 (Paperback)

Lloyd Robinson first wrote this book in the 1960s and interest was renewed after the 2000 election. As a history buff, I found this book to be surprisingly well-written and informative. I say "surprisingly" because I kind of expected a book that would get bogged down in minutia and academia. However, this book gives an excellent portrayal of the country in 1876, especially in the South where the white Democrats were trying to reclaim power from the Republicans and the former slaves who were beholden to the Republicans. Although Mr. Robinson clearly felt the election was stolen and Tilden should been president, he also points out irregularities in the south, especially in the disputed states of South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida whereby blacks were not allowed to vote and how this contributed to Tilden's victory in the popular vote in these states.

If you are a history buff and enjoy reading about politics of previous eras this is a book worth reading.

4.0 out of 5 stars The stolen election of 1876., February 20, 2004

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This review is from: The Stolen Election: Hayes Versus Tilden - 1876 (Paperback)

I thought this a great read after the fiasco of the 2000 election. Our constitution is great, but what if the electoral votes are so close and people decide to cheat in a election year. This was exactly what happened in 1876 where both Democrats and Republicans cheated to get their man into the White House. The result was the end of Reconstruction and the disenfrachisement of the black population in the South by our glorious Democratic Party. It also resulted in a disaster of the Hayes Presidency, rather than a reform minded Samuel Tilden as President.
Robinson wrote this book in the sixties, but it is still relevant today. Unless the American people change the way we elect our presidents, this might well happen again. This is solid, interesting read.