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What people are saying - Write a reviewEditorial Review - Cahners Business Information (c) 2001 Modern politicians are quite aware that the support of the press can make or break their careers. Here, Maihafer, a West Point graduate, retired U.S. Army officer, and author of The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana, examines the media savvy of Abraham Lincoln, long recognized as a masterly politician. Tracing the evolution of Lincoln's political career and his relationship with the press, he demonstrates how Lincoln, who was not as highly regarded in his day as he would become later, worked with this important group to promote himself and his agenda and build support for the Union cause. This engagingly written book would be enjoyed by the general reader, but because so much has been written on Lincoln, libraries that already own, for example, Michael Burlingame's Lincoln's Journalist: John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864 or Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, which examines Lincoln's relationship with individual writers, may wish to think twice about buying it. Theresa R. McDevitt, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Editorial Review - Cahners Business Information (c) 2001 Modern politicians are quite aware that the support of the press can make or break their careers. Here, Maihafer, a West Point graduate, retired U.S. Army officer, and author of The General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana, examines the media savvy of Abraham Lincoln, long recognized as a masterly politician. Tracing the evolution of Lincoln's political career and his relationship with the press, he demonstrates how Lincoln, who was not as highly regarded in his day as he would become later, worked with this important group to promote himself and his agenda and build support for the Union cause. This engagingly written book would be enjoyed by the general reader, but because so much has been written on Lincoln, libraries that already own, for example, Michael Burlingame's Lincoln's Journalist: John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864 or Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, which examines Lincoln's relationship with individual writers, may wish to think twice about buying it. Theresa R. McDevitt, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Related books
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