William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan (19 Maret 1860 – 26 Juli 1925) adalah seorang politisi Amerika yang memimpin dari 1890-an sampai kematiannya.

Ia menjabat dua jabatan sebagai anggota Dewan Perwakilan Amerika Serikat dari Nebraska dan merupakan Sekretaris Negara Amerika Serikat di bawah Presiden Woodrow Wilson (1913–1915), menjabat karena posisi pasifis-nya pada Perang Dunia.

Latar belakang dan karier awal: 1860–1896 
William Jennings Bryan lahir di Salem, Illinois pada 19 Maret 1860, dari Silas Lillard Bryan dan Mariah Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan.

Referensi dan Sumber 

 Bryan, William Jennings. William Jennings Bryan: selections ed. by Ray Ginger (1967) 259 pages
 Bryan, William Jennings. The first battle: a story of the campaign of 1896 (1897), 693pp; campaign speeches online edition
 The Commoner Condensed, annual compilation of The Commoner magazine; full text online for 1901, 1902, 1903, 1907, 1907, 1908
 Bryan, William Jennings. The old world and its ways (1907) 560 pages full text online
 Bryan, William Jennings. Speeches of William Jennings Bryan edited by Mary Baird Bryan (1909) full text online
 Bryan, William Jennings. In His image (1922) 226pp full text online
 Bryan, William Jennings. The Memoirs: of William Jennings Bryan, by himself and his wife (1925) 560pp; online edition
 Bryan, William Jennings. British Rule in India (1906) Online Edition

Bacaan tambahan

Biografi 

 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 vol 1; online vol 2; online 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).
 Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2006).
 Koenig, Louis W. Bryan: A Political Biography of William Jennings Bryan (1971).
 Leinwand, Gerald. William Jennings Bryan: An Uncertain Trumpet (Lanham (MD), Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
 Levine, Lawrence W. Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryan, The Last Decade, 1915–1925 (1965).
 Werner; M. R. Bryan (1929).

Studi khusus 

  on 1896
 Bensel, Richard Franklin. Passion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic Convention (2008)
  Analysis of the historiography.
  Argues that fundamentalists thought they had won Scopes trial but death of Bryan shook their confidence.
 
 
 
 
  Puts Scopes in larger religious context.
 
 
 Scroop, Daniel. "William Jennings Bryan's 1905–1906 World Tour," Historical Journal (2013) 56#2 pp 459–486 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X12000520
 
  On Bryan's place in Democratic Party history and ideology.

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 
 William Jennings Bryan cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
 "The Deity of Christ" – paper by Bryan on the subject 
 William Jennings Bryan papers at Nebraska State Historical Society

Kelahiran 1860
Kematian 1925
Politikus Partai Demokrat (Amerika Serikat)