Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Columbia Journalism Review | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

HORACE GREELEY: CHAMPION OF AMERICAN FREEDOM by Robert C. Williams New York University Press 424 pp. $34.95

There was only one Horace, but there have been many biographies. This new one comes, refreshingly, from outside journalism. It was written by a veteran historian whose starting point was his interest in understanding the words "liberty" and "freedom," and the distinctions between them. Williams found that much of the nineteenth-century discussion of these concepts flowed through a single figure, Horace Greeley (1811-1872). Not only did Greeley himself contribute to the ...

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