Power for Sanity Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1832-1861

At his death in 1878 William Cullen Bryant had been, for fifty-one years, the chief editor and a principal owner of the New York Evening Post. The paper had been started in 1801 by lawyer William Coleman in association with the Federalist politician Alexander Hamilton. In 1826, Coleman hired Bryant as a reporter. Although Coleman may have engaged his services because of his growing distinction as a poet, Bryant was also by then an experienced writer of prose, having published more than fifty critical and familiar essays.Bryant, William C. is the author of 'Power for Sanity Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1832-1861' with ISBN 9780823215447 and ISBN 082321544X.