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The General and the Journalists
Harry James Maihafer
其他書名
Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana
出版Brassey's, 1998
主題Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of StateBiography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, PublishersHistory / GeneralHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN15748810519781574881059
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EW93AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋As both general and president, Grant felt the full power of the press. By a remarkable twist of fate, not only his wartime successes but also his peacetime failures were directly influenced by Greeley and Dana, two of the greatest figures of American journalism. The trio provides a fascinating contrast: Grant the simple soldier, basically unchanged from the time he left West Point until the day he died, honor untarnished but reputation sullied by men in whom he placed too much trust; Greeley the idealistic, brilliant, opinionated kingmaker, alternating in wartime between hawk and dove, forever shifting in his allegiances; and Dana the perverse, pragmatic, cynical intellectual, one of the first to emphasize news over editorials.