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The Doom Of Reconstruction : The Liberal Republicans In The Civil War Era

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Horace Greeley : Champion Of American Freedom

  • Horace Greeley : Champion Of American Freedom

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    Robert C. Williams

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    Book, New York University Press, 2006

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    ?From James Patron?s 1855 Life of Horace Greeley through Greeley?s 1868 autobiography Recollections of a Busy Life, and down to the present, dozens of voices have told the story and legend of Horace Greeley. ?The Wall Street Journal “Williams gives a straightforward account . Succeeds in portraying [Greeley] as a leading figure in the struggle to define freedom ‘as a universal good better than the liberty that tolerated slavery.’ ” ?The New York Times “A comprehensive biography of Greeley (1811?72), deftly analyzing the price he paid to brook no intrusion, partisan or otherwise, on his principles. ?New York Sun ?Through research involving many new primary sources, Williams opens our eyes to many unknown or unappreciated facets of this fearless editor and political strategist, as well as his influence over Abraham Lincoln, William Seward, and reforms of society of all types?.[E]ssential for those wanting to understand the social and political climate in the United States during the time between what some have called the two American revolutions ? Ritchie, author of Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps “Williams describes the Civil War editor and politician Horace Greeley as a ‘great mind and heart.’ I agree. Horace Greeley is as rigorous and vast as Greeley himself, and as America itself in the long nineteenth century. In the first comprehensive biography of Greeley to be published in nearly half a century, Williams captures Greeley from all sides: editor, reformer, political candidate, eccentric, and trans-Atlantic public intellectual; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Horace Greeley: The People’s Editor.

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Horace Greeley; Founder Of The New York Tribune

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The Life Of Horace Greeley

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Horace Greeley, Founder Of The New York Tribune

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Horace Greeley, Voice Of The People

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Horace Greeley, Nineteenth-century Crusader

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As God Made Them; Portraits Of Some Nineteenth-century Americans,

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