Speeches of William Jennings Bryan.

"Free government can not long survive when the thousands enjoy the wealth of the country and the millions share its poverty in common": The Speeches of William Jennings Bryan; Both volumes inscribed by him

Speeches of William Jennings Bryan.

BRYAN, William Jennings.

Item Number: 96117

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1913.

The collected speeches of William Jennings Bryan. Small octavo, two volumes, original blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue guard to volume I. With a biographical introduction by Mary Baird Bryan, his wife. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of both volumes I and II, “To Mr. S. D. Green with compliments & good wishes of William Jennings Bryan.” In very good condition, with the inscription in volume II with some staining. Uncommon signed.

In 1896, Nebraska politician William Jennings Bryan emerged as a powerful figure in the Democratic party where he stood three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. Jennings also served as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson and, shortly before his death, gained national attention for attacking the teaching of evolution in the Scopes Trial.

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