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In the mid-nineteenth century, Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune had the largest national circulation of any newspaper in the United States. Its contributors included many of the leading minds of the period-Margaret Fuller, Henry James Sr., Charles Dana, and Karl Marx. The Tribune was also a locus of social democratic thought that closely matched the ideology of Greeley, its founder and editor, who was a noted figure in politics and reform movements.

Adam Tuchinsky's book recalls an earlier style of opinion media, with "participant editors" acting not unlike today's...

This summation of his life's work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern environmental movement and is no less relevant today than 150 years ago. -Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present, - he wrote. He extolled walking as a delightful and necessary idleness, an antidote to the burdens of civilization, a means of immersing ourselves in nature and awakening to the moment.

-Walking- is recognized by most scholars as Thoreau's -other- masterpiece, Walden in a more concise form. In the introduction of this edition, Adam Tuchinsky...