A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan

Cherny, Robert W.

ISBN 10: 0806126671 / ISBN 13: 9780806126678

Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994

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Inhaltsangabe:

Three 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 A Righteous Cause: The Life of Williams Jennings Bryan, Robert W. Cherny presents Bryan&;s key role in the Democratic Party&;s transformation from the conservatism of Grover Cleveland to the progressivism of Woodrow Wilson. Cherny draws on Bryan&;s writings and correspondence to trace his major political crusades for a new currency policy, prohibition, and women&;s suffrage, and against colonialism, monopolies, America&;s entry into World War I, and the teaching of evolution in the public schools.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Robert W. Cherny is Professor Emeritus of History at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Populism, Progressivism, and the Transformation of Nebraska Politics, 1885-1915, American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868-1900 and coauthor of Competing Visions: A History of California and Making America: A History of the United States.

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Titel: A Righteous Cause: The Life of William ...
Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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