Fraud of the Century - Likewise Book Reviews

"This is an interesting read, looking at one of the most important elections in American history, and overall, I found it quite good. That being said, I was a little concerned about how they reported some of the violence that surrounded the election. Talking about violence committed by both black and white Americans in the deep south, the book suggests that we don't really know about what both sides did and seems to suggest that the same amount of violence was perpetrated on both sides. I don't really think that black Americans in the 1870s were able to do the same amount of violence as their white counterparts. The argument that "but both sides did the same thing" doesn't really ring true in this situation."