Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune: Civil War-Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor. Adam Tuchinsky. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 336 pp.
The Civil War era continues to be one of the most prolific fields of study in journalism history. These two books significantly advance scholarship and teaching—one with a compact survey of the abolitionist press, a crucial early success in the history of American advocacy journalism, and the other with a detailed research monograph about Horace Greeley’s socialism, an often glossed-over facet of one of the most influential U.S. editors. [Read more...]