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Roy Jr. Morris
Books by Roy Jr. Morris
Lighting Out for the Territory
How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.” Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally is trying to “sivilize” him, and Huck Finn can’t stand it—he’s been there before. It’s a decis...
Fraud of the Century
Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
In this major work of popular history and scholarship, acclaimed historian and biographer Roy Morris, Jr, tells the extraordinary story of how, in America’s centennial year, the presidency was stolen, the Civil War was almost reignited, and Black Americans were consigned to nearly ninety years...