Quotes by Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

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The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his bac — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world". — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Repu — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's cir — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion