The founder and editor of the New-York Tribune , Horace Greeley was the most significant--and polarizing--American journalist of the nineteenth century.
To just about everyone else--Democrats, southerners, and a good many Whig and Republican political allies--Greeley was a shape-shifting menace: an abolitionist fanatic; a disappointing conservative; a terrible liar; a power-hungry megalomaniac..
To the farmers and tradesmen of the rural North, the Tribune was akin to holy writ.
The founder and editor of the New-York Tribune , Horace Greeley was the most significant--and polarizing--American journalist of the nineteenth century