Evangelical reformer.(A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan)(Book review)

The Christian Century | October 17, 2006| | Copyright

A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. By Michael Kazin. Knopf, 400 pp., $30.00.

MICHAEL Kazin, a scholar of U.S. populism who catalogues William Jennings Bryan's many public incarnations, chose to write about the Great Commoner for several related reasons.

First, as a historian Kazin sees Bryan--partisan of white farmers and laborers, thrice-defeated presidential candidate, secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, crusader for temperance and women's suffrage--as an innovator whose approach to political campaigning shaped politics today. Kazin ...

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