Zabriskie, Francis Nicoll. American Orators and Reformers. Horace Greeley, the Editor. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890. [12416]
Burgundy publisher's cloth with gilt titles, spine a bit faded, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Frontispiece portrait of Greeley, 390 pp. with index. Contemporary private bookplate. Good. Hardcover.
One of the American Reformers series, edited by Carlos Martyn.
Horace Greeley (1811-1872) a journalist who worked for the New Yorker and in 1841 established the New York Tribune, which he would edit for the next 30 years. Greeley used his newspaper influence to campaign against alcohol, tobacco, gambling, prostitution, and, most of all, for the abolition of slavery.
