A biography for Harold Holzerhasn’t been written yet.
“Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers”
“Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.”
“Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.”
“His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.”
“I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.”
“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.”
“Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.”
“Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".”
“The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.”