William Jennings Bryan

by LeRoy Ashby

Book by Ashby, Leroy

245 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1987

About the author

Leroy Ashby is emeritus faculty in the Department of History at Washington State University.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't recall a lot of the details of this book, certainly not enough to write a decent school paper on Bryan's presidential campaigns or silver vs. gold philosophy. What I remember most, though, is his enormous gifts as an orator in the days before microphones, and the fact that he was a rock star on the Chautauqua lecture circuit. A truly interesting man whose reputation would probably have fared better if he had stayed away from the Scopes trial.