| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom. By Robert C. Williams. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xviii, 411 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8147-9402-5.)

One person cannot listen to many speakers, but many people can hear a single person speak. That is the way of the world, from Moses to Oprah Winfrey. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Horace Greeley's Weekly Tribune had a larger national audience than any other American news publication. Greeley used his newspaper to echo and promote some of the best, as well as some of the quirkiest, causes on the social and political agenda of the nineteenth century. Among them were temperance and vegetarianism, westward migration and spiritualism, universalism and Fourierism, antislavery and trade unionism, to mention only a few. The influence "Uncle Horace" was believed to exert on public opinion leveraged him into the innermost circles of American politics, ultimately gaining him the Liberal Republican's presidential nomination in the 1872 election.

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