Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom

From: Journalism History | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Tuchinsky, Adam-Max | Copyright information

Williams, Robert C. Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 440 pp. $34.95.

The general outline of Horace Greeley's life is pretty widely known. Born in 1811, he would become a nineteenth-century incarnation of Benjamin Franklin; like him, he was a largely self-educated apprentice printer who left New England for the commercial metropolis of his time. In New York rather than Philadelphia, the regional values of his youth would take a new...

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