WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN:
I. POLITICAL EVANGELIST 1860-1908

By Paolo E. Coletta

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.

First edition, first printing.

Publisher's peach-colored printed review slip laid in.

Numerous photographs and illustrations on glossy black-and-white plates.

An in-depth account of Bryan's political life, his terms in Congress, his failures to win a Senate seat, all the way through to his third Presidential campaign and narrow defeat.

Bryan was an orator, lawyer in the Scopes trial made famous in the play INHERIT THE WIND, three-time Presidential candidate, and Secretary of State.
Fine, square and tight in green linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine, green-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket with a touch of fading to the spine panel, and a short tear to the upper edge of the rear flap fold; original printed $6.50 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 486 pages; bibliography; index.

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