A01=Lawrence W. Levine
Author_Lawrence W. Levine
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Product details
- ISBN 9780674195424
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1987
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Defender of the Faith offers a reinterpretation of William Jennings Bryan in his last years as an unchanging Progressive whose roots were deeply embedded in agrarian populism. It changes the standard picture of Bryan in his final years as that of a crusader for social and economic reform sadly transformed into a reactionary champion of anachronistic rural evangelism, cheap moralistic panaceas, and Florida real estate. He pleaded for for progressive labor laws, liberal taxes, government aid to farmers, public ownership of railroads, telegraphs, and telephones, federal development of water resources, minimum wages for labor, and other advanced causes.
Lawrence W. Levine was an American historian noted for promoting multiculturalism and the perspectives of ordinary people in the study of history.
