Whoopers and Shouters
James Morone: William Jennings Bryan, 21 February 2008
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
by Michael Kazin.
Anchor, 374 pp., $16.95, March 2007,978 0 385 72056 4 Show More
by Michael Kazin.
Anchor, 374 pp., $16.95, March 2007,
“... the Democratic Party from Woodrow Wilson (elected in 1912) to Franklin Roosevelt (1932) and Lyndon Johnson (1964). More than a century later, Democratic candidates still criss-cross the country trying to rekindle the lost Populist magic. In fact, the present campaign season has seen even some Republicans groping for the prairie Democrat’s standards. But ... ”