A Righteous Cause: The Life Of William Jennings Bryan

Three times the Democratic Partys nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908) and secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan voiced the concerns of many Americans left out of the postCivil War economic growth.

In A Righteous Cause: The Life of Williams Jennings Bryan, Robert W. Cherny presents Bryans key role in the Democratic Partys transformation from the conservatism of Grover Cleveland to the progressivism of Woodrow Wilson. Cherny draws on Bryans writings and correspondence to trace his major political crusades for a new currency policy, prohibition, and womens suffrage, and against colonialism, monopolies, Americas entry into World War I, and the teaching of evolution in the public schools.