Quotes by Harold Holzer

A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspapers circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with information that could help him. He was unwilling to get help from someone in petticoats.

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.

One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brothers CORPS.

General literature without the humbug, was the New Yorkers original mission.

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

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

Im the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

The author describes Lincolns attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, almost defiant transparency.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance. Lord Acton

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

Stephen Douglass oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincolns for his peers

One of Lincolns 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.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying hed uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

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

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

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.