Horace Greeley and the politics of reform in nineteenth-century America / Mitchell Snay.
- Title
- Horace Greeley and the politics of reform in nineteenth-century America / Mitchell Snay.
- Published by
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
- Author
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- Description
- x, 199 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Horace Greeley (1811 - 1872) was a major figure in nineteenth-century American history. As a newspaper editor, politician, and reformer, Greeley was involved with the major events and trends of the era. He was the influential editor of the New York tribune from 1841 until his death and was instrumental in the rise of the Whig and Republican political parties"--Publisher provided.
- Series statement
- American profiles
- Uniform title
- American profiles (Lanham, Md.)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Contents
- From country to city: coming of age in the early republic -- The politics of whiggery: the 1830s -- The world of print culture in antebellum New York -- The politics of reform: the 1840s -- The politics of antislavery: the 1850s -- The politics of union: the Civil War -- The politics of Reconstruction.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain