2006, ISBN: 0814794025

[EAN: 9780814794029], Neubuch, [PU: New York University Press, New York], Hardcover. From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 a… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780814794029], Neubuch, [PU: New York University Press, New York], Hardcover. 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 cityas 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 his own interests and causes, all of which revolved around the concept of freedom. While he adored his work as a New York editor, Greeleyas lifelong quest for universal freedom took him to the edge of the American frontier and beyond to Europe. A major figure in nineteenth-century American politics and reform movements, Greeley was also a key actor in a worldwide debate about the meaning of freedom that involved progressive thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Karl Marx. Greeley was first and foremost an ardent nationalist who devoted his life to ensuring that America live up to its promises of liberty and freedom for all of its members. Robert C. Williams places Greeleyas relentless political ambitions, bold reform agenda, and complex personal life into the broader context of freedom. Horace Greeley is as rigorous and vast as Greeley himself, and as America itself in the long nineteenth century. In the first comprehensive biography of Greeley to be published in nearly half a century, Williams captures Greeley from all sides: editor, reformer, political candidate, eccentric, and trans-Atlantic public intellectual; examining headlining news issues of the day, including slavery, westward expansion, European revolutions, the Civil War, the demise of the Whig and the birth of the Republican parties, transcendentalism, and other intellectual currents of the era. View the Table of Contents. Read the Preface. From James Patrons 1855 "Life of Horace Greeley" through Greeleys 1868 autobiography "Recollections of a Busy Life," and down to the present, dozens of voices have told the story and legend of Horace Greeley. Williamss rich and well-presented account of his ideological and political legacy is a welcome addition to that chorus. It is certainly worth hearing. —"The Journal of American History" Williamss work is an essential one for those wanting to understand the social and political climate in the United States during the time between some have called the two American revolutions- ones that was fought for liberty and one that was pursued for freedom. —"Civil War Book Review" A splendid telling of a story that couldnt be more timely now that we are in another difficult and controversial war. —"The Wall Street Journal" "Williams gives a straightforward account . . . [and] argues that Greeley unswervingly devoted himself to a single ideal—American freedom—and was, in turn, crucial to its development." —"The New Yorker" "In Mr. Williams' hands, Greeley comes through as a warm-hearted eccentric whose influence was greater than that of any editor today." —"Washington Times" We should be grateful for and even astonished by this graceful and absorbing account of a species practically extinct, a newspaper publisher for whom focus groups and stockholders arent true north on his moral compass. —"Harper's Magazine" "The celebrated reformer Horace Greeley edited "The New York Tribune," has a tiny but elegant oasis in Midtown named for him, and may be best remembered for having memorably advised young men togo west. In Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom, Robert C. Williams places this 19th-century New, Books<

2006, ISBN: 0814794025

[EAN: 9780814794029], Neubuch, [PU: New York University Press, New York], Hardcover. From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 a… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780814794029], Neubuch, [PU: New York University Press, New York], Hardcover. 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 cityas 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 his own interests and causes, all of which revolved around the concept of freedom. While he adored his work as a New York editor, Greeleyas lifelong quest for universal freedom took him to the edge of the American frontier and beyond to Europe. A major figure in nineteenth-century American politics and reform movements, Greeley was also a key actor in a worldwide debate about the meaning of freedom that involved progressive thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Karl Marx. Greeley was first and foremost an ardent nationalist who devoted his life to ensuring that America live up to its promises of liberty and freedom for all of its members. Robert C. Williams places Greeleyas relentless political ambitions, bold reform agenda, and complex personal life into the broader context of freedom. Horace Greeley is as rigorous and vast as Greeley himself, and as America itself in the long nineteenth century. In the first comprehensive biography of Greeley to be published in nearly half a century, Williams captures Greeley from all sides: editor, reformer, political candidate, eccentric, and trans-Atlantic public intellectual; examining headlining news issues of the day, including slavery, westward expansion, European revolutions, the Civil War, the demise of the Whig and the birth of the Republican parties, transcendentalism, and other intellectual currents of the era. View the Table of Contents. Read the Preface. From James Patrons 1855 "Life of Horace Greeley" through Greeleys 1868 autobiography "Recollections of a Busy Life," and down to the present, dozens of voices have told the story and legend of Horace Greeley. Williamss rich and well-presented account of his ideological and political legacy is a welcome addition to that chorus. It is certainly worth hearing. —"The Journal of American History" Williamss work is an essential one for those wanting to understand the social and political climate in the United States during the time between some have called the two American revolutions- ones that was fought for liberty and one that was pursued for freedom. —"Civil War Book Review" A splendid telling of a story that couldnt be more timely now that we are in another difficult and controversial war. —"The Wall Street Journal" "Williams gives a straightforward account . . . [and] argues that Greeley unswervingly devoted himself to a single ideal—American freedom—and was, in turn, crucial to its development." —"The New Yorker" "In Mr. Williams' hands, Greeley comes through as a warm-hearted eccentric whose influence was greater than that of any editor today." —"Washington Times" We should be grateful for and even astonished by this graceful and absorbing account of a species practically extinct, a newspaper publisher for whom focus groups and stockholders arent true north on his moral compass. —"Harper's Magazine" "The celebrated reformer Horace Greeley edited "The New York Tribune," has a tiny but elegant oasis in Midtown named for him, and may be best remembered for having memorably advised young men togo west. In Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom, Robert C. Williams places this 19th-century New, Books<

ISBN: 9780814794029

Horace Greeley was first and foremost an ardent nationalist who devoted his life to ensuring that America live up to its promises of liberty and freedom for all of its members. This book … Mehr…

Horace Greeley was first and foremost an ardent nationalist who devoted his life to ensuring that America live up to its promises of liberty and freedom for all of its members. This book places Greeley's relentless political ambitions, bold reform agenda, and complex personal life into the broader context of freedom.; Business, Finance & Law, New York University Press<

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