William Jennings Bryan#Bibliography

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A list of key readings about William Jennings Bryan.

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### Biographies[edit]

* Cherny, Robert W. A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (1994).
* Coletta; Paolo E. William Jennings Bryan 3 vols. (1964), the most detailed biography online edition vol 1 online edition vol 2 online edition vol 3
* Glad, Paul W. The Trumpet Soundeth: William Jennings Bryan and His Democracy 1896-1912 (1966).
* Hibben; Paxton. The Peerless Leader, William Jennings Bryan (1929). online edition
* Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2006).
* Koenig, Louis W. Bryan: A Political Biography of William Jennings Bryan (1971)
* Werner; M. R. Bryan (1929). online edition

### Specialized studies[edit]

* James A. Barnes, "Myths of the Bryan Campaign," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 34 (Dec. 1947) online in JSTOR
* Cherny, Robert W. "William Jennings Bryan and the Historians." Nebraska History 1996 77(3-4): 184-193. Issn: 0028-1859. analysis of the historiography
* Edwards, Mark. "Rethinking the Failure of Fundamentalist Political Antievolutionism after 1925" Fides et Historia 2000 32(2): 89-106. Issn: 0884-5379 Argues that fundamentalists thought they had won Scopes trial but death of Bryan shook their confdence.
* Glad, Paul W. McKinley, Bryan and the People (1991), on 1896.
* Hohenstein, Kurt. "William Jennings Bryan and the Income Tax: Economic Statism and Judicial Usurpation in the Election of 1896" Journal of Law & Politics 2000 16(1): 163-192. Issn: 0749-2227
* Jeansonne, Glen. "Goldbugs, Silverites, and Satirists: Caricature and Humor in the Presidential Election of 1896." Journal of American Culture 1988 11(2): 1-8. Issn: 0191-1813
* Larson, Edward. Summer for the Gods (1997), on the Scopes Trial.
* Lienesch, Michael. In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement (2007)
* Longfield, Bradley J. "For Church and Country: the Fundamentalist-modernist Conflict in the Presbyterian Church." Journal of Presbyterian History 2000 78(1): 34-50. Issn: 0022-3883 Puts Scopes in larger religious context
* Mahan, Russell L. "William Jennings Bryan and the Presidential Campaign of 1896" White House Studies 2003 3(2): 215-227. Issn: 1535-4738
* Murphy, Troy A. "William Jennings Bryan: Boy Orator, Broken Man, and the 'Evolution' of America's Public Philosophy." Great Plains Quarterly 2002 22(2): 83-98. Issn: 0275-7664
* Springen, Donald K. William Jennings Bryan: Orator of Small-Town America Greenwood Press, 1991 online edition
* Taylor, Jeff. Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy (2006), on Bryan's place in Democratic Party history and ideology.
* Whicher, George F. ed. William Jennings Bryan and the Campaign of 1896 (1953), excerpts from primary and secondary sources online edition
* Wood, L. Maren. "The Monkey Trial Myth: Popular Culture Representations of the Scopes Trial" Canadian Review of American Studies 2002 32(2): 147-164. Issn: 0007-7720

### Primary sources[edit]

* Bryan, Mary Baird, ed. The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan (1925). online edition
* Bryan, William Jennings. First Battle (1897), speeches from 1896 campaign. online edition
* Bryan, William Jennings. Speeches of William Jennings Bryan (1909) online edition
* Ginger, Ray, ed. William Jennings Bryan; Selections (1967).
* Whicher, George F. ed. William Jennings Bryan and the Campaign of 1896 (1953), excerpts from primary and secondary sources online edition