Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley"

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Lincoln bought a German language newspaper."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers"

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley"

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world"."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with information that could help him. He was unwilling to get help from someone in petticoats."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?"

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

"I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on."

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion