Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood

by James M. Lundberg

A lively portrait of Horace Greeley, one of the nineteenth century's most fascinating public figures.

The founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, Horace Greeley was the most significant--and polarizing--American journalist of the nineteenth century. To the farmers and tradesmen of the rural North, the Tribune was akin to holy writ. To just about everyone else--Democrats, southerners, and a good many Whig and Republican...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421432870
• ISBN13: 9781421432878
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.2"