MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN; W.J. Bryan & Mary Bryan 1st/1st 1925 Illustr.

  THE MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, by W.J. Bryan and His Wife, Mary Baird Bryan — First Edition, 1925 Illustrated

 Publisher: John C. Winston Company, Chicago (1925)

In excellent condition. The gilt-decorated boards and binding are solid and tight. The pages are crisp and clean, save for light spots of foxing on the top border of the first two blank pages. A solid, very well preserved copy of William Jennings Bryan's autobiography, a three-time Democratic presidential candidate during the late 19th and early 20th century, and a campaigner for the women's right to vote. 560 pages, and illustrated.

Biography

Mr. Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States (1896, 1900, and 1908). He served two terms as a member of the United States Representative from Nebraska and was United States Senate under President Woodrow Wilson (1913–1915).