PIOUS POLITICIAN BIOGRAPHY EXPLORES LIFE OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)

From: The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | Date: March 26, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: WILLIAM R. WINEKE bwineke@madison.com 608-252-6146

He was a popular politician, a born-again Christian who inspired the masses in the Midwest and the South particularly.

But William Jennings Bryan, three-time presidential nominee and secretary of state for Woodrow Wilson, was a Democrat and a liberal, a champion of the progressive income tax and a proponent of women's rights.

"A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan" by Michael Kazin (Knopf: $30) demonstrates in example after example that the link between Evangelical Christianity and political ...

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