Whenever I read a Lincoln book, I look to see if there's anything new, and in this case there was.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

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

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

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

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