How do you lead a nation when half the country thinks you were fraudulently elected?  I'm not talking about 2021, I'm talking about 1877, when Rutherford B Hayes emerged the winner of an election that was so vigorously contested, he wasn't even officially declared the winner until two days before inauguration day. But what did Hayes win? A nation that didn't fully accept him, and a party so rife with corruption that the longest daggers were in his fellow Republicans' pockets.Follow along as Hayes fights in the Civil War, becomes governor of Ohio, wins the craziest election in American history, and then faces down corrupt bosses within his own party and a violent crescendo of labor unrest triggered by the rampant inequalities of the industrial revolution.Bibliography1. Rutherford B. Hayes – Hans. L. Trefousse2. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President - Ari Hoogenboom3. Grant – Jean Edward Smith4. T.R. the last Romantic – H.R. Brands5. The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur – Scott S. Greenberger6.  Destiny of the Republic – Candice Miller

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