num_pages: 400
description: “lt is doubtful that William Jennings Bryan, who always maintained that a man must be judged by his life as a whole and not by any one part of it, would have approved of a study which concentrated exclusively upon the years between his resignation from W'oodrow Wilson’s Cabinet in June 1915 and his death in Dayton, Tennessee, in July 1925. Yet such a study has long been needed, for the fact is that Bryan has been judged by just these years. . . . “Bryan, especially in the latter stages of his career, has been too often judged and too little understood. The desire to understand him and those he spoke for is the spirit that I hope informs every page of this volume. This is not to maintain that there are no judgments in this work; there are. I am not naive enough to think that I could divest myself completely of my own age and my own beliefs, and these come through again and again. But I have striven to keep them subordinate to the basic purpose of this study Which, to repeat myself, is not judgment but comprehension."
language: English
title: Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade, 1915–1925
titlecomplete: Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade, 1915–1925
genres: Biography, History
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Harvard University Press