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Article: Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2008
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Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom. By Robert C. Williams. (New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 413. $34.95.)
The author of this laudatory work on the nineteenth-century editor, essayist, and politician, Horace Greeley, seeks to place his subject in clearer relief against the political, intellectual, and social crosscurrents of the day. The reader will not be disappointed with the topical breadth and obvious extensive research that resulted in this well-written biography.
For the first time, Greeley's views on everything from free labor to Fourierism are simply, though not simplistically, explained. The Greeley who ...