92 Quotes by Harold Holzer

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission.

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley