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Glances at Europe: In a Series of Letters From Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851 (Dodo Press)
Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters From Great Britain France Italy Switzerland c During the Summer of 1851 - Dodo Press Author:Horace Greeley Horace Greeley (1811-1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day. " Greeley used it to promote the Whig... more » and Republican parties, as well as opposition to slavery and a host of reforms. Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U. S. presidential election. Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide. His works include: Glances at Europe: In a Series of Letters (1851), A Political Text-Book for 1860 (c1860), The American Conflict (2 volumes) (1864), Recollections of a Busy Life (1868) and What I Know of Farming (1871).« less