| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Canada and the United States

Robert C. Williams. Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 413. $34.95.

Abraham Lincoln compared Horace Greeley to "an old shoe—good for nothing new, whatever he has been." The irascible Andrew Johnson, known for neither his powers of observation nor wit, snorted he was "a sublime child ... all heart and no head ... like a whale ashore." Ulysses Grant thought him "a genius without common sense." His friend and fellow editor James Gilmore concluded similarly that he was "undisciplined, ill-regulated, but great." Yet Carl Schurz, taking measure of Greeley as a presidential candidate in 1872, at the end of his public life, remarked simply, he "appears cracked as usual." Although both admirers and detractors thought Greeley eccentric and impractical ("a man of sixty ideas, and every one of the sixty an impracticable crochet," groused William Henry Seward), Robert C. Williams sees method to what others thought his madness. In this sympathetic though not uncritical biography, Williams contends that Greeley's public life "epitomized the search for American freedom" (p. xviii).

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