Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom

by Robert C. Williams

From the Acknowledgments page: "I came to Horace Greeley from the outside, not the inside. I had no intention of writing his biography. Rather, I was engaged in a study of the shifting meanings of the words liberty and freedom in trans-Atlantic political discourse in the nineteenth century. This included a wide variety of research and reading into some major figures of the time --- James Fenimore Cooper, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Parker, Karl Marx, Julia Ward ... I soon began to realize that virtually all roads led through them to Greeley. He and his New York Tribune, were a kind of international switchboard for a trans-Atlantic conversation about liberty and freedom..." (xi).


From the back cover: "By far the most important biography of Horace Greeley to appear in the past half century.." 
—David W. Howe, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University

Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom

ISBN: 0-8147-9402-5

Publisher: New York University Press

Available at Hermit Hill Books in Poultney and at the Symposium.