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Article: A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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Bryan, 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 historic distinction: in the four elections between 1896 and 1908, it was the only Democratic ticket not led by William Jennings Bryan. Bryan, as Michael Kazin makes clear in his splendid new biography, spent his political life fighting against the plutocratic impulses in the Democratic Party that produced colorless candidates such as Davis and Parker. He may never have won the presidency, but, Kazin argues, he left ...