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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder QUOTES

1 " What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their day-the theaters have had their day-the temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great heaven , and save more from Hell, than all the churches and chapels in New York-besides making money at the same time" "Shakespeare is the great genius of the drama, Scott of the novel, Milton and Byron of the poem, and I mean to be the genius of the newspaper press." James Gordon Bennett, editor ot he New York Herald in 1841 "

― Daniel Stashower , The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

2 " The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841 "

― Daniel Stashower , The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

3 " I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves"
— Edgar Allan Poe "

― Daniel Stashower , The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder