“ James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means. ”
The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a graduate of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.
~ Harold Holzer
Only a writer with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.
At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.
