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The Gospel of William Jennings Bryan: the great commoner wasn't a progressive despite his traditionalism--but because of it.(On Political Books)(A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan)(Book Review)
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Washington Monthly
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March 1, 2006| Author:
Kilgore, Ed
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A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan By Michael Kazin Knopf, $30.00
Upon hearing of the death of Willliam Jennings Bryan in 1925, the Socialist leader Eugene Debs sadly commented that the iconic populist over the course of his lifetime "grew more and more conservative until finally he stood before the country as a champion of everything reactionary in our political and social life."
This is the still-prevailing judgment that led Georgetown Univers...
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