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From:White House Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedArriving home in Lincoln, Nebraska, at daybreak on a night train from out of town, 27-year-old William Jennings Bryan awakened his wife. "Mary, I have had a strange experience," he said excitedly. "Last night I found...
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From:Biography (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBryan, William Jennings A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. Michael Kazin. New York: Knopf, 2005. 374 pp. $30.00. "Bryan, Kazin tells us, should be viewed not as a garrulous fundamentalist, as he is...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 23, Issue 4)The political successes of three-time presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan is examined. The political climate of the 1890s to early 1900s, his role in influencing conservative Democrats to adopt a liberal...
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From:The Hemingway Review (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough he asserts that knowing its sources and influences is unnecessary for understanding the novel, James Hinkle, in "Some Unexpected Sources for The Sun Also Rises," intimates that Bill Gorton's allusion to William...
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From:Biography (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBryan, William Jennings A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. Michael Kazin. New York: Knopf, 2006. 374 pp. $30.00. "The [Alton B. Parker-Henry Gassaway Davis presidential] campaign has one further...
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From:Journal of Southern History (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Jennings Bryan: An Uncertain Trumpet. By Gerald Leinwand. American Profiles. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2007. Pp. xx, 183. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-5158-9.)...
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From:Journal of Southern History (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. By Michael Kazin. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Pp. xxii, 374. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 978-0385-72056-4; cloth, $30.00, ISBN 978-0-375-41135-9.) There is a telling...
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From:Journal of Southern History (Vol. 86, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Last Orator for the Millhands: William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 1916-2005. By John Herbert Roper Sr. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 443. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-88146-690-4.) This meticulous...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 71, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Jennings Bryan: An Uncertain Trumpet. By Gerald Leinwand. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. Pp. xx, 181. $33.00.) "If it hadn't been for Bill Bryan there wouldn't be any liberal outfit in...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 30, Issue 2)A GODLY HERO: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. By Michael Kazin, Knopf. 374 pp. $30 THERE IS A TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS of politicians, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. William Jennings Bryan...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 70, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhere Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy. By Jeff Taylor. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. 392. $44.95.) Why have the electoral fortunes of...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBy Richard Franklin Bensel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 318 pp. Richard Franklin Bensel's close-up narrative of the Democratic National Convention of 1896 is an impressive example of intensive...
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From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 49, Issue 5)49-2972 KF4541 2010-39781 CIP Magliocca, Gerard N. The tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: constitutional law and the politics of backlash. Yale, 2011. 238p bibl index afp ISBN 0300153147, $40.00, ISBN...
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From:Harvard Law Review (Vol. 125, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash. By Gerard N. Magliocca. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2011. Pp. x, 238. $40.00. History has not been kind to William...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 49, Issue 43)Byline: THOMAS BARTLETT William Jennings Bryan ran for president of the United States three times and lost three times. Does that make him a loser? Students have to decide in Bill Steirer's history class,...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 93, Issue 4)The caption to Figure 1 of Edward Davis's article "Science and Religious Fundamentalism in the 1920s" (May-June 2005) erroneously describes William Jennings Bryan as lead prosecutor in the Scopes trial. In fact,...
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From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 71, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." ~William Jennings Bryan Every morning, I walk by a plaque bearing that quote. The...
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From:White House Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The prospect that, in the 21st Century, we, in the United States, will witness "The First Woman President," is made possible by those who have gone before; specifically, those visionaries who saw the need...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 251)I doubt Mary Pipher holds the moral or religious views the Great Commoner defended in the Scopes trial. Which makes me think it's not Nebraska that has changed nearly as much as progressivism, which now has much more in...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 251)Having spent twenty fine years living in Omaha, I read with interest an op-ed in the New York Times, "Nebraska's Lonely Progressives." It was Mary Pipher's cry of despair. Once the home of William Jennings Bryan and a...