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Recollections of a busy life

Author: Horace Greeley; Robert Dale Owen
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Elibron Classics : Adamant Media, ©2005, 1868.
Series: Elibron Classics series.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Greeley was a newspaper editor, reformer, and politician. He used his position at the New York Tribune newspaper to promote the Republican and Whig parties. He was involved in almost every political and social issue of his era. His editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" (Aug. 20, 1862) advocated an aggressive attack on the Confederacy and faster emancipation of the slaves. As an agrarian, he supported liberal  Read more...
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Named Person: Horace Greeley; Horace Greeley
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Horace Greeley; Robert Dale Owen
ISBN: 1402168365 9781402168369 1402106432 9781402106439
OCLC Number: 63178206
Notes: Added t.p.: Recollections of a busy life: including reminiscences of American politics and politicans, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery: to which are added miscellanies ... also a discussion with Robert Dale Owen of the law of divorce. By Horace Greeley. New York, J.B. Ford and co., 1868.
Description: xv, [17]-624 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series Title: Elibron Classics series.
Responsibility: by Horace Greeley.

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Greeley was a newspaper editor, reformer, and politician. He used his position at the New York Tribune newspaper to promote the Republican and Whig parties. He was involved in almost every political and social issue of his era. His editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" (Aug. 20, 1862) advocated an aggressive attack on the Confederacy and faster emancipation of the slaves. As an agrarian, he supported liberal policies towards settlers: one of his famous phrases was "Go West, young man."

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