One of the most influential New Yorkers, and Americans, of the 19th century wasHorace Greeley, the brilliant and eccentric editor of the New York Tribune. Greeley's contributions to journalism are legendary, and his opinions held great influence among the nation's leaders as well as its common...
Greeley was unkempt, always looking like an unmade bed. Even when he was nationally famou 44、s in the 1850s he resembled a clerk in a third-rate brokerage house, with slips of paper marked-up proofs perhaps hanging out of his pockets or stuck in his hat. He became fat, was always ...