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The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a graduate of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

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Harold Holzer Education Maturation Suffering

Only a writer with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

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Harold Holzer Leadership Motivation Tact Word Choice

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

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Harold Holzer Diction Motivation Preaching Word Choice

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

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Harold Holzer Exhortation Motivation Rhetoric Word Choice

I have not done enough for effect. Horace Greeley

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Harold Holzer Charisma Motivation Presentation Visual Word Choice

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

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Harold Holzer Communication Discipleship Evangelism Leadership Motivation

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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Harold Holzer Emotion Leadership Motivation Opinion

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

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Harold Holzer Leadership Motivation Nostalgia Partisanship

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

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Harold Holzer Leadership

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. Horace Greeley

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Harold Holzer Curiosity Explanation Leadership Narrative Persuasion

Lincoln said his spiky hair had a way of getting up in the world.

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Harold Holzer Humility Leadership Self Deprecation

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

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Harold Holzer Interpretation Leadership Narrative Storytelling

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

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Harold Holzer Bias Censorship Curiosity Prejudice Reading

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.

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Harold Holzer History Perspective

A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's 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.

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Harold Holzer Bias Marriage Sexism

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.

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Harold Holzer Distraction Literature Media Perspective Presentism

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 brother's CORPS.

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Harold Holzer Assumptions Bias Depression Despondency Faith Panic Perspectives

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

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Harold Holzer Culture Current Events Evangelism Openness

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

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Harold Holzer Anger Discontent Emotion

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

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Harold Holzer Anger Discipleship Event Tourism Persecution Prejudice

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

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Harold Holzer Honesty Humility Reputation

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance. Lord Acton

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Harold Holzer Arrogance Closemindedness Humility Openness Persuasion

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

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Harold Holzer Evangelism Humility Immigration Multiculturalism Openness Vocabulary Word Choice

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

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Harold Holzer Humility Job Openness Versatility Vocation

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

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Harold Holzer Arrogance Humility Persuasion Self Promotion

One of Lincoln's 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.

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Harold Holzer Bias Optimism Perspective Self Centeredness

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

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Harold Holzer Bias Discipleship Distraction Evangelism Loyalty Perspective

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

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Harold Holzer Emotion Maturation Perspective Persuasion Word Choice

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

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Harold Holzer Communication Enthusiasm Social Media

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

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Harold Holzer Communication Media Technology

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

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Harold Holzer Contemplation Technology Writing

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

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Harold Holzer Bias Conventional Wisdom Self Confidence Self Delusion

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

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Harold Holzer Bragging Self Confidence

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

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Harold Holzer Bias Discipleship Objectivity Professionalism

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, Have you any news?

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Harold Holzer Curiosity Distraction Media

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

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Harold Holzer Bias Partisanship Polarization Unity

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

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Harold Holzer Elitism Media

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

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Harold Holzer Approachability Friendship Listening

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.

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Harold Holzer Arrogance Idolatry Liberalism Social Gospel

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

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Harold Holzer Discernment Taste Voice Writing
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