Quotes by Harold Holzer

A writer at the time said, Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

Samuel FB Morses SECOND question over the telegraph was, Have you any news?

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

Horace Greeleys conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.