Defender of the faith : William Jennings Bryan, the last decade, 1915-1925
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Defender of the faith : William Jennings Bryan, the last decade, 1915-1925
Harvard University Press, 1987, c1965
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1965
Bibliography: p. 366-371
Includes index
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Defender of the Faith offers a reinterpretation of William Jennings Bryan in his last years as an unchanging Progressive whose roots were deeply embedded in agrarian populism. It changes the standard picture of Bryan in his final years as that of a crusader for social and economic reform sadly transformed into a reactionary champion of anachronistic rural evangelism, cheap moralistic panaceas, and Florida real estate. He pleaded for for progressive labor laws, liberal taxes, government aid to farmers, public ownership of railroads, telegraphs, and telephones, federal development of water resources, minimum wages for labor, and other advanced causes.
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