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Author : Gerard N. Magliocca
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300153149
Looks at how William Jennings Bryan's attempts to reach the White House invigorated conservatives across the United States and changed approaches to constitutional law.
Author : Gerard N. Magliocca
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300153156
Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard N. Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach the White House energized conservatives across the nation and caused a transformation in constitutional law. Responding negatively to the Populist agenda, the Supreme Court established a host of new constitutional principles during the 1890s. Many of them proved long-lasting and highly consequential, including the "separate but equal" doctrine supporting racial segregation, the authorization of the use of force against striking workers, and the creation of the liberty of contract. The judicial backlash of the 1890s--the most powerful the United States has ever experienced--illustrates vividly the risks of seeking fundamental social change. Magliocca concludes by examining the lessons of the Populist experience for advocates of change in our own divisive times.
Author : William Jennings Bryan,Mary Baird Bryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013533784
Author : Louis William Koenig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Legislators
ISBN : UOM:39015005382786
"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." -- Amazon.com
Author : William Jennings Bryan,Mary Baird Bryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125889145X
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
Author : William Jennings Bryan
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290195021
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Michael Kazin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385720564
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Politician, evangelist, and reformer William Jennings Bryan was the most popular public speaker of his time. In this acclaimed biography—the first major reconsideration of Bryan’s life in forty years–award-winning historian Michael Kazin illuminates his astonishing career and the richly diverse and volatile landscape of religion and politics in which he rose to fame. Kazin vividly re-creates Bryan’s tremendous appeal, showing how he won a passionate following among both rural and urban Americans, who saw in him not only the practical vision of a reform politician but also the righteousness of a pastor. Bryan did more than anyone to transform the Democratic Party from a bulwark of laissez-faire to the citadel of liberalism we identify with Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1896, 1900, and 1908, Bryan was nominated for president, and though he fell short each time, his legacy–a subject of great debate after his death–remains monumental. This nuanced and brilliantly crafted portrait restores Bryan to an esteemed place in American history.
Author : Wayne C. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258972506
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
Author : William Jennings Bryan
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9791041999583
"In His Image" by William Jennings Bryan is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between science, religion, and morality. In this book, Bryan, a prominent politician and orator, argues for the compatibility of faith and reason, advocating for a worldview that acknowledges the existence of a divine creator and the importance of moral values derived from religious teachings. Drawing on his background in law and politics, Bryan presents a compelling case for the role of religion in shaping personal character and guiding societal progress. Through engaging prose and persuasive arguments, "In His Image" seeks to reconcile the advances of modern science with the enduring truths of religious faith, offering readers a thoughtful reflection on the nature of humanity and the universe.
Author : Linda K. Kerber
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781466817241
This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than rights. Looking closely at thirty telling cases from the pages of American legal history, Kerber's analysis reaches from the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," up to the present, when men and women, regardless of their marital status, still have different obligations to serve in the Armed Forces. An original and compelling consideration of American law and culture, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies emphasizes the dangers of excluding women from other civic responsibilities as well, such as loyalty oaths and jury duty. Exploring the lives of the plaintiffs, the strategies of the lawyers, and the decisions of the courts, Kerber offers readers a convincing argument for equal treatment under the law.
Author : Terry Golway
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871407924
“Golway’s revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.”—Wall Street Journal History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Ireland’s potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy was at stake. Tammany’s transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reforms—such as child labor laws, workers’ compensation, and minimum wages— and Golway demonstrates that American political history cannot be understood without Tammany’s profound contribution. Culminating in FDR’s New Deal, Machine Made reveals how Tammany Hall “changed the role of government—for the better to millions of disenfranchised recent American arrivals” (New York Observer).
Author : Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0393330044
Award-winning author Stone has created an in-depth examination of how constitutional rights have fared under the current president, and reveals how the government has suppressed civil liberties in times of war throughout American history.
Author : Joseph Fishkin,William E. Forbath
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674980624
A bold call to reclaim an American tradition that argues the Constitution imposes a duty on government to fight oligarchy and ensure broadly shared wealth. Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the Òrepublican form of governmentÓ the Constitution requires. Today, courts enforce the Constitution as if it has almost nothing to say about this threat. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this revolutionary retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political and constitutional thought. Fishkin and Forbath demonstrate that reformers, legislators, and even judges working in this Òdemocracy of opportunityÓ tradition understood that the Constitution imposes a duty on legislatures to thwart oligarchy and promote a broad distribution of wealth and political power. These ideas led Jacksonians to fight special economic privileges for the few, Populists to try to break up monopoly power, and Progressives to fight for the constitutional right to form a union. During Reconstruction, Radical Republicans argued in this tradition that racial equality required breaking up the oligarchy of slave power and distributing wealth and opportunity to former slaves and their descendants. President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Dealers built their politics around this tradition, winning the fight against the Òeconomic royalistsÓ and Òindustrial despots.Ó But today, as we enter a new Gilded Age, this tradition in progressive American economic and political thought lies dormant. The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution begins the work of recovering it and exploring its profound implications for our deeply unequal society and badly damaged democracy.
Author : Kathleen M. Sands
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300245370
How American conflicts about religion have always symbolized our foundational political values When Americans fight about “religion,” we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core political values. The Constitution treats religion as something to be confined behind a wall, but in public communications, the Framers treated religion as the foundation of the American republic. Ever since, Americans have translated disagreements on many other issues into an endless debate about the role of religion in our public life. Built around a set of compelling narratives—George Washington’s battle with Quaker pacifists; the fight of Mormons and Catholics for equality with Protestants; Teddy Roosevelt’s concept of land versus the Lakota’s concept; the creation-evolution controversy; and the struggle over sexuality—this book shows how religion, throughout American history, has symbolized, but never resolved, our deepest political questions.
Author : Richard Parker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466893757
The life and times of America's celebrated economist, assessing his lessons-and warnings-for us today. John Kenneth Galbraith's books—among them The Affluent Society and American Capitalism—are famous for good reason. Written by a scholar renowned for energetic political engagement and irrepressible wit, they are models of provocative good sense that warn prophetically of the dangers of deregulated markets, war in Asia, corporate greed, and stock-market bubbles. Galbraith's work has also deeply-and controversially-influenced his own profession, and in Richard Parker's hands his biography becomes a vital reinterpretation of American economics and public policy. Born and raised on a small Canadian farm, Galbraith began teaching at Harvard during the Depression. He was FDR's "price czar" during the war and then a senior editor of Fortune before returning to Harvard and to fame as a bestselling writer. Parker shows how, from his early championing of Keynes to his acerbic analysis of America's "private wealth and public squalor," Galbraith regularly challenged prevailing theories and policies. And his account of Galbraith's remarkable friendship with John F. Kennedy, whom he served as a close advisor while ambassador to India, is especially relevant for its analysis of the intense, dynamic debates that economists and politicians can have over how America should manage its wealth and power. This masterful chronicle gives color, depth, and meaning to the record of an extraordinary life.
