Excerpt from The Genius of Horace Greeley When a biographer, even an amateur, sets out, he is almost sure to have a prejudice, or at least a case to prove. I may as well confess to a prior feeling that Horace Greeley was an overestimated man, that he was wrong Oftener than he was right, that he did more harm than good in his thirty years Of public life. As I studied his life more deeply, I began to waver, to understand that a mere fanatic, a pursuer of all the isms of his time, could not have had the influence Of Horace Greeley, could not have held sway over the minds and hearts of hundreds Of thousands through the terrible years of the Civil War and the critical decade or more pre ceding secession. It became apparent that Horace Greeley was some thing more, much more, than an opinionated editor with a vitriolic pen and a vituperative tongue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.