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As the first major one-volume biography of William Jennings Bryan to appear since the years immediately following his death, BRYAN is a notable publishing event. Today Bryan is largely remembered as the youthful orator from Nebraska who stampeded the Democratic Presidential convention of 1896 with his Cross of Gold speech and as the old man who was humiliated by Clarence Darrow in the Scopes trial. Probably no political figure of comparable statue and influence has been so wretchedly neglected or so sketchily recalled. BRYAN is not a reevaluation; it is a monumental biography of a man whose towering importance has been wrongfully eroded by time. The tragedy of Bryan's life is that he rose to prominence with ideas that were often decades ahead of realization and then saw his vilifiers gain glory by eventually adopting his programs. He was the first Presidential candidate of a major party to advocate such reforms as the breaking up of trusts, the direct election of United States Senators, the graduated income tax, the regulation of banks and railroads, and woman suffrage. For these proposals he was denounced from pulpits, attacked as a madman and anarchist by the establishment press and so feared by industry that many businesses threatened to close their doors if he acceded to the Presidency.
- Sales Rank: #1673210 in Books
- Published on: 1971-01
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- Binding: Hardcover
- 719 pages
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The Great Commoner
By KMD
Koenig offers a readable introduction to Bryan that covers the basics but does not fall into the details trap. The narrative flows well. Koenig offers some insights into Bryan's celebrated (and unlikely) political career. But Bryan was more than just a political figure; he was also a religious one. Koenig does not provide much insight into Bryan's rather stormy religious career. Bryan's most famed religious speech/book, "The Prince of Peace," is almost ignored in this biography. Still, this flaw is minor. For a good in-depth introduction to Bryan, Koenig's book is recomended.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
THE BIBLE FOR HISTORIANS ON W.JENNINGS BRYAN
By A Customer
A VERY BROAD PERSPECTIVE ON AN A TRULY AMERICAN HERO, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. A COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY OF AN INCREDIBLE POLITICAL FIGURE THAT CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.
The author is also alert to mention on pg 140 and 267, references to BLOODY BRIDLES WAITE. This character was highly controversial, yet respected amongst the common people, similar to Bryan. The history of Bloody Bridles in American politics is obscure, yet comes alive within this book.
A SOLID WORK OF RESEARCH ON A GREAT POLITICIAN. FRANK S. WAITE
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The Hobo Philosopher
By Richard E. Noble
Bryan
A political biography of William Jennings Bryan
By
Louis W. Koenig
Book Review
By
Richard Edward Noble
Despite all the claims by historians regarding objectivity, I think there are two types of biographies, positive and negative. The author either dislikes his subject and writes to rip away any glory or admires him and writes apologetically in his defense.
This biography is a positive, admiring biography.
I became interested in Mr. Bryan because of his economic policies. He was preaching Keynesian economics before Keynes ever
thought of it and advocating FDR’s New Deal policies in the latter 1800’s.
Bryan is famous for his Cross of Gold speech. In this speech he advances the cause of the government coining silver along with gold thus increasing the amount of money in circulation. This was a step above the green backed paper dollar that was printed up by the government during the Civil War with no gold or silver backing.
Bryan advocated that the government put more money in circulation as the solution to the 1873 depression. This depression lasted over twenty years and, as is always the case, took its toll primarily on the poor and middle class.
Bryan was a class warrior in the truest sense of the word. He would not take a penny from the rich or super wealthy to support any of his campaigns. When Bryan went out “stumping” he gave new meaning to the word. He would speak from five in the morning until the late hours of the night. He would speak before any crowd. He had one dollar a plate dinners to help raise campaign money. His campaign treasury never came close to his Republican opponents. What he lacked in money he made up for in determination and drive. He gave them a run for their money every time.
When battling McKinley for the presidency McKinley refused to even debate Bryan. He felt he didn’t have the skills or the arguments. So instead he stayed at home and greeted supporters from his porch.
Bryan was the Democratic nominee for president three times and was the most feared opponent of Republicans far and wide for decades. The author claims that he could have won a fourth nomination after the Republicans disgraced themselves with the Tea Pot Dome scandal under President Harding. If he had, the author claims that he would have won easily. But Bryan didn’t campaign for the presidency in that election because his wife was very ill and needed more of his attention. He wasn’t doing all that great himself.
He spoke out vociferously against the greed of the wealthy. He advocated worker rights, just compensation, progressive income tax, workman compensation, women’s rights, child labor laws, government old age insurance (Social Security), unemployment compensation, the eight hour day and just about anything else the progressives of today espouse.
The author makes the claim that Bryan was the father of the modern day Democratic Party, liberalism and Progressive thought.
He was economically progressive when such ideas were not even on the American radar screen. His notions were considered abhorrent to Americanism by the rich and powerful just as they are today. And Mark Hanna (think Koch Brothers and the John Birch Society) and his friends fought Bryan tooth and nail. They spent fortunes to defeat him.
As is the case in today’s politics, they used every weapon possible to destroy Bryan, including outright lies and slander.
Studying this volume is the perfect primer for what is going on around us today and understanding how the political system works – or doesn’t work.
All the same arguments have returned and the debates and speeches of William Jennings Bryan are the same rebuttals being advanced today.
When Bryan was advancing his biggest threat to Republican and big business, government control in his third attempt for the presidency, the moneyed class took a very interesting action in attempting to blow the wind from Bryan’s sails. They exported their gold from their foreign bank accounts and put it into circulation back here in the States.
This tactic was Bryan’s Silver idea, but with a twist of gold. Now there was more money in circulation to dissipate the depression. Whether it was gold, silver or green backed paper dollars, the effect was the same. Prosperity returned and Bryan’s negative attacks lost their luster.
But this shows us that even back then, the Republicans knew what was necessary to cure a depression. Republicans support depressions because they punish their biggest and most hated rivals – the workers. When they demoralize workers and lower wages sufficiently then they may start reinvesting once again. In today’s economy, though, reinvesting in America and its workers is really not necessary. They can manufacture overseas and ship their wares back to the States with no penalties whatsoever.
Bryan’s biggest problem was his integrity or moral principles. The best example of this came with the outbreak of the Hurst/Pulitzer War, better known as the Spanish American War.
Bryan mistakenly supported the “liberation” of Cuba from the Spanish. He thought it a matter of moral principle even though he was against war in general.
Strangely enough the Spanish conceded to every demand forwarded by the United States, but war was declared nevertheless. This fact was not made known to the general public at the time. War sold newspapers and made big bucks for the arms merchants. So war it would be, even if the enemy had already surrendered.
To prove his sincerity Bryan abandoned his politics and joined the military.
Now McKinley had Bryan where he wanted him. Bryan was still his biggest political threat, and his feelings toward Bryan were not sympathetic.
Bryan was made the military leader of a group from Nebraska and sent to the most torturous battlefield of the entire war.
He was sent to the swamps and jungles of Florida. More Americans died in Florida from tropical diseases waiting for deployment to Cuba than were killed on the battlefields of Cuba. McKinley kept Bryan in the Florida swamps even when his service was no longer required. Then he ordered him to Cuba when the fighting was through and the Spanish defeated. It seems clear that McKinley wanted to kill Bryan if it were at all possible. Bryan had to resign his commission and face public disgrace as his only alternative.
Bryan caught malaria and whatever else was going around in the Florida swamps and was very lucky to escape with his life.
The story of William Jennings Bryan is the story of the first great champion of modern day progressive liberalism.
Any of the political junky crowd would benefit from reading this man's career.
His three nominations were no accident. He was the master political psychologist and strategizer. He knew how to master the old time political Conventions, the general public and his Democratic opponents.
I think if Bryan had been elected in one of his bids, he was the kind of leader who would have changed things for decades. He would have put America on a different path. A path that once incorporated would have been very difficult to reverse.
Today the only memory of Bryan is his participation in the Scopes Monkey Trials in Tennessee. It was immortalized in the movie, “Inherit the Wind.”
In the movie the defense lawyer, Clarence Darrow, is played by Spencer Tracy and the main prosecutor, William Jennings Bryan, is portrayed by Frederic March.
The movie favors the ideas of Clarence Darrow with regards to the truth of evolution, but Bryan and the Bible theory of creation were far and away the popular public opinion.
Most people believe today that Clarence Darrow won the day for evolution over an aging, babbling William Jennings Bryan. The fact is that the prosecution under Bryan won the case. It was simple. The Butler Law stated that teaching evolution was against the law and subject to fine.
Scopes admitted that he was teaching evolution in violation of the law.
Case closed.
The Hobo Philosopher, Richard Edward Noble, is the author of "America On Strike."
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