EDITORS FROM THE PAST

The New Yorker reviews a new biography of Horace Greeley by Robert C. Williams.

The "briefly note" shows how today´s newspaper editors are quite boring compare with one the America´s most famous editors.

The short review is plenty of facts about the former editor of the Tribune:

-An early promoter of Thoureau

-Lent money to Poe

-Employed as foreign correspondents both Mark Twain and Karl Marx.

-Unhappy married.

-Fascinated by utopian communities and diet fads.

-Helped to found the Republican Party, but ran for President as Democrat.

-Was late in becoming an "anti-slavery man"

-Then excoriated Lincoln for moving slowly on emancipation...