...Earle D. Ross Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 Horace Greeley and the South, 186^-1872 Earle D. Ross Professor of History in Simpson College John Russell Young, residing in Europe during the political campaign of 1872, upon reading the announcement that Gen­ eral Roger A. Pryor...

...Robert H. Woody Horace Greeley and the Republican Party, 1853-1861: A Study of the New York Tribune . By Isely Jeter Allen . Princeton Studies in History, Volume III . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1947 . Pp. xiii , 368 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University...

...Robert H. Woody Horace Greeley, Nineteenth-Century Crusader . By Van Deusen Glyndon G. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1953 . Pp. 445 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 387 Horace Greeley, Nineteenth-Century Crusader...

... Randall. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953. Pp. xiv, 555. $5.75. Lincoln and Greeley. By Harlan Hoyt Horner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953. Pp. viii, 532. $6.00. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. The Abraham Lincoln Associa­ tion, Springfield, Illinois. Roy P. Basler, editor, Marion Dolores...

...,* and the contest became increasingly interesting. The Liberal Republican organization gave its support to the Conser­ vative candidates, nearly all of whom had accepted Greeley, but some with manifest restiveness under the burden. This feeling was very strong with many Conservatives in the state. Vance...

... other that helped prepare the North for Lin­ coln s election and a war to abolish slavery. Greeley s error was in the conviction that the South would not secede, that it was all a game of bluff, that the Southern people would not fight, that as a last resort they would repudiate their leaders and come...

... the author has had access to records which are still secret and to conversations and correspondence which are not otherwise available. Immediately, this version is definitive; one can also hope that Professor Morison s own records will some day become part of the public domain. Theodore Ropp. Horace Greeley...

... letter of Lincoln which the editors of Lincoln s col­ lected works have described as purported (inaccurate or spurious Un­ less the psychiatrist wants to take a hand and explain why Greeley mounted every horse that came down the pike without going any place in particular, we are willing, in view...

... today have no idea who directs the editorial policy of their newspaper, and yet probably there was no regular subscriber in 1865 who could not have answered such a ques­ tion. For while the 1860 s saw the closing of the era of per­ sonal journalism, yet as long as a Bennett, a Greeley, a Bryant...

... of the eastern states. Second, and more important, was the remarkable group of newspaper men who dominated the press of the city, namely: Bennett, Greeley, Raymond, Dana and Bryant. These newspaper magnates were eager for the de­ velopment of the journalistic profession as well as for the ad­ vancement...

..., if possible, by some welldefined policy of compromise. During the period of doubt and uncertainty and in the midst of such discussions the man who stood closest to Seward, perhaps, was Henry J. Raymond, then editor of the New York Times. Raymond had served his apprenticeship in journalism under Horace Greeley...

... such as Greeley, Bennett, and Raymond possessed great political as well as journalistic stature. At best, the lowly reporter has received only passing notice, and that mostly in individual cases after he had mounted the ladder to higher rungs. Mr. Weisberger has sought to redress the balance with a study...

... back, if not to von Holst, at least to Albert Bushnell Hart. There are some signs, indeed, that the author has too long been under the spell of Horace Greeley and has imbibed the spirit of the anti-slavery crusaders of the 1850 s who would centralize the nation politically in the name of freedom...

... debates in Congress and of the im­ peachment of Andrew Johnson; a cotton planter in Louisiana; an intimate associate of Horace Greeley on The Tribune; him­ self the editor of that journal for more than a quarter of a century; a leading spirit in the fight against the Tweed ring and in the Greeley campaign...

.... Frequently ill, he earned bread and butter by writing for Horace Greeley s Tribune. Ripley and Dana gave him several articles to do for their New American Cyclopedia. The Count could not have been very unhappy, for he reported: I can abuse everybody but Greeley, Ripley and Dana. Yet he proved too much even...

... Greeley s passionately anti-slavery New York Tribune, was a major in the Free State army, both sides having elaborately organized companies of bushwhacking militia­ men. He later wrote that he had gone West, as he put it, to pre­ cipitate a revolution by his pen in hopes that such a spectacular...

... this kind of re­ porting in action. The outside activities of the correspondents themselves furnished a clue as to the kind of stories to be expected. James Redpath, acting for Horace Greeley s passionately anti-slavery New York Tribune, was a major in the Free State army, both sides having...

... intellectuals like Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, with whom we had absolutely nothing in common. Nobody believed me when I wrote that Jack Kerouac was the most Catholic writer in America. In defiance and despair I turned to the works of Andrew Greeley for some consoling wisdom. For years Greeley had fought...

.... It is natural for us to ask, has Mr. Bradford here abdicated his position as stage manager and director of this drama ? The answer must be a decided negative. The characters here pre­ sented Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Horace Greeley, Edwin Booth, Francis James Child, and Asa Gray are depicted...

...R. E. Wolseley Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 THE JOURNALIST AS AUTOBIOGRAPHER R. E. WOLSELEY IF DANA AND GREELEY, those convenient symbols of mid­ nineteenth-century journalism, were here today to see the flow of personal histories by reporters, correspondents, and editors...