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...
In the mid-nineteenth century, Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune had the largest national circulation of any newspaper in the United State...
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...
This summation of his life's work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern environmental movement and is no less r...