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Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion Quotes: Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.
         

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.


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Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.
         



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