Harold Holzer Quotes

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

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

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.

John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.