ISBN10: 0806126671, ISBN13: 9780806126678, [publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'A succinct study in which the author combines a knowledge of the standard works in the field with original research and new insights and analysis.[H]is book is a serious and intelligent one that students, scholars, and a general public can read with pleasure and profit.' -Martin Ridge, Annals of Iowa'It is the best short biography of Bryan now available.Cherny's treatment of Bryan and Darrow at the Scopes trial is fair, and his concluding chapter, 'Evuluating a Crusader,' is very well balanced.' -Ferenc M. Szasz, Ohio History'Cherny argues that Bryan helped transform the Democratic Party from the conservatism of Grover Cleveland to the progressivism of Woodrow Wilson.Cherny has traced Bryan's life in short compass and in a fashion that works well for the studnet and general reader.' -R. Hal Williams, Western Historical QuarterlyThree times the Democratic Party's nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908), and Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan voiced the concerns of many Americans left out of the post-Civil War economic growth. In this book, Robert W. Cherny traces Bryan's major political crusades for a new currency policy, prohibition, and women's suffrage, and against colonialism, monopolies, America's entry ...
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ISBN10: 0806126671, ISBN13: 9780806126678, [publisher: University of Oklahoma Press] Softcover
[Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]