''The Tribune set a new standard in American journalism by its combination of energy in news gathering with good taste, high moral standards, and intellectual appeal. Police reports, scandals, dubious medical advertisements, and flippant personalities were barred from its pages; the editorials were vigorous but usually temperate; the political news was the most exact in the city; book reviews and book-extracts were numerous; and as an inveterate lecturer Greeley gave generous space to lectures. The paper appealed to substantial and thoughtful people.''<ref>Nevins in ''Dictionary of American Biography'' (1931)</ref></blockquote>
Greeley prided himself in taking radical positions on all sorts of social issues; few readers followed his suggestions. Utopia fascinated him; influenced by [[Albert Brisbane]] he promoted [[Fourierism]]. His journal had [[Karl Marx]] (and [[Friedrich Engels]] too) as European correspondent in the early 1850s, but they did not send Greeley any radical material.<ref> See [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/newspapers/new-york-tribune.htm source]</ref> He promoted all sorts of agrarian reforms, including homestead laws.
Greeley supported liberal policies towards settlers; he memorably advised the ambitious to "Go West, young man." A champion of the working man, he attacked monopolies of all sorts and rejected land grants to railroads. Industry would make everyone rich, he insisted, as he promoted high tariffs. He supported vegetarianism, opposed liquor and paid serious attention to any ism anyone proposed. What made the ‘’Tribune’‘ such a success was the extensive news stories, very well written by brilliant reporters, together with feature articles by fine writers. He was an excellent judge of newsworthiness and quality of reporting.
* Commons, John R. "Horace Greeley and the Working Class Origins of the Republican Party," ''Political Science Quarterly'' 24 (September 1909) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2140888 in JSTOR]
* Cross, Coy F., II. ''Go West Young Man! Horace Greeley's Vision for America.'' (1995). 165 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=1191721 online edition]
* Downey, Matthew T. "Horace Greeley and the Politicians: The Liberal Republican Convention in 1872," ''The Journal of American History,'' Vol. 53, No. 4. (Mar., 1967), pp. 727-750 727–750. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28196703%2953%3A4%3C727%3AHGATPT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B in JSTOR]
* Isley, Jeter Allen. ''Horace Greeley and the Republican Party'' (1947)
* Lunde, Erik S. ''Horace Greeley'' (Twayne's United States Authors Series, no. 413.) (1981). 138 pp.
* Lunde, Erik S. "The Ambiguity of the National Idea: the Presidential Campaign of 1872" ''Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism'' 1978 5(1): 1-23. ISSN 0317-7904
*Nevins, Allan. "Horace Greeley" in ''Dictionary of American Biography'' (1931).
* [[Vernon Louis Parrington|Parrington, Vernon L.]] ''Main Currents in American Thought'' (1927), II, pp. 247-57 247–57. [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/Parrington/vol2/bk02_01_ch05.html online edition]
* Parton, James. '' The Life of Horace Greeley: Editor of "The New-York Tribune"'' (1st ed. 1855, 2nd ed. 1889) 557 pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=cDgOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:new+intitle:york+intitle:tribune&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES full text online]
* Potter, David. "Horace Greeley and Peaceable Secession," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 7, No. 2 (May, 1941), pp. 145-159 145–159 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2191468 in JSTOR]
* Robbins, Roy M. "Horace Greeley: Land Reform and Unemployment, 1837-1862," ''Agricultural History'', VII, 18 (January, 1933). [http://www.ditext.com/robbins/robbins.html online edition]
* Rourke, Constance Mayfield. ''Trumpets of Jubilee: Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, Horace Greeley, P.T. Barnum'' (1927). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=30485375 online edition]
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