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　　In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested

1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was in

many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in

ours. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and

peerlessly researched chronicle of the post—Civil War years, when

the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant was marked by misjudgment and

scandal, and Hayes, Republican governor of Ohio, vied with Tilden,

a wealthy Democratic lawyer and successful corruption buster, to

succeed Grant as America’s chief executive. The upshot was a very

close popular vote (in favor of Tilden) that an irremediably

deadlocked Congress was unable to resolve. In the pitched battle

that ensued along party lines, the ultimate decision of who would

be President rested with a commission that included five Supreme

Court justices, as well as five congressional members from each

party. With a firm understanding of the energies that motivated the

era’s movers and shakers, and no shortage of insight into the

processes by which epochal decisions are made, Chief Justice

Rehnquist draws the reader intimately into a nineteenth-century

event that offers valuable history lessons for us in the

twenty-first.

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　　William H. Rehnquist was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and

served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He earned

his B.A. and M.A. in political science from Stanford University and

a second M.A. from Harvard. He graduated first in his class at

Stanford Law School in 1952. In 1969 Rehnquist became assistant

attorney general for the Justice Department's Office of Legal

Council. He was confirmed by the Senate as an associate justice of

the Supreme Court in December 1971, and took his place on the bench

in January 1972. He became the sixteenth Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court in 1986. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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媒体评论

　　"Provocative. . . . An engaging and precise account of the

bewildering political episode at once remote in time and in culture

from our own contested election but strangely familiar as well."

--The Washington Post

　　"Highly recommended. . . . Rehnquist takes the reader through the

major congressional and Supreme Court debates of the 1860s and

1870s . . . fill[ing] in this tumultuous background with brisk,

confident strokes. . . . He has a keen eye for good stories and

quirks of character, and a forceful expository style." --The New

York Sun

　　“An immensely readable work. . . . Rehnquist makes a convincing

case.” --New York Post

　　"In this terrific and valuable work, Chief Justice Rehnquist

re-creates one of the most dramatic presidential elections in

American history. The wealth of biographical detail and the superb

discussion of the intriguing issues involved bring the principal

actors in this fascinating controversy to vivid life." --Doris

Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Time:

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

　　“As a historian Rehnquist is first-rate. The story of the

Hayes-Tilden square-off of 1876 is perhaps the most surreal

political imbroglio America has ever produced. And this is the most

literate, judicious, and wise retelling of that bizarre election

ever written.” --Douglas Brinkley, director of the Eisenhower

Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans

　　"Speak[s] pointedly to recent and current events. . . . Rich with

subplots and engaging characters." --Austin

American-Statesman

　　"Rehnquist narrates [the] events [of the 1876 election] clearly .

. . [and] offers colorful portraits of the two presidential

candidates and members of the Court." --The Nation

　　"Rehnquist hits his stride here, explaining how the commission

worked and how the dispute was influenced by the concept of state

sovereignty . . . and insightfully delving into the mystery of why

one of the justices on the commission may have changed his mind at

the last minute." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram

　　"An earnest book . . . [about] an intensely interesting period in

American history." --Los Angeles Times

　　"Rehnquist takes readers behind the scenes of the controversy."

--Florida Times-Union

书籍介绍

In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and peerlessly researched chronicle of the post—Civil War years, when the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant was marked by misjudgment and scandal, and Hayes, Republican governor of Ohio, vied with Tilden, a wealthy Democratic lawyer and successful corruption buster, to succeed Grant as America’s chief executive. The upshot was a very close popular vote (in favor of Tilden) that an irremediably deadlocked Congress was unable to resolve. In the pitched battle that ensued along party lines, the ultimate decision of who would be President rested with a commission that included five Supreme Court justices, as well as five congressional members from each party. With a firm understanding of the energies that motivated the era’s movers and shakers, and no shortage of insight into the processes by which epochal decisions are made, Chief Justice Rehnquist draws the reader intimately into a nineteenth-century event that offers valuable history lessons for us in the twenty-first.