It is perhaps some measure of the current desperation of American liberals that an obviously talented historian would recommend for their attention the career of William Jennings Bryan-a three-time political loser, vigorous advocate of Prohibition, and equally vigorous opponent of the theory of evolution. When Bryan, a reform Democrat who was defeated in presidential rac (...)
September 22, 2006
Books
The Lessons of Defeat
A Godly HeroThe Life of William Jennings BryanMichael KazinAlfred A. Knopf, $30, 374 pp.
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