Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom

by Robert C. Williams

Book Overview

From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the city's ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune at the forefront of a national revolution in reporting and transmitting news. Greeley devoured ideas, books, fads, and current events as quickly as he developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814794025
• ISBN13: 9780814794029
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"