Roy Jr. Morris

About The Author

Roy Morris, Jr, is the author of The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War; Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company; and Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan. A former political correspondent, he lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Books by Roy Jr. Morris

Lighting Out for the Territory

How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain

By Roy Jr. Morris

An action-packed and often hilarious story of Samuel Clemens from his journey to the Wild West as an ex-Confederate guerrilla and unemployed riverboat pilot to becoming celebrated American author Mark Twain.

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Fraud of the Century

Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876

By Roy Jr. Morris

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...

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