This work examines the oratory skills of Bryan, tracing and analyzing his development as a speaker, and providing the texts of important addresses that spanned much of his career. Reference & Research Book News
Series Foreword Foreword by Halford R. Ryan Preface William Jennings Bryan Introduction The Making of an Orator Bryan as Presidential Candidate Bryan as Secretary of State Reforms, Reactionaries, and the Ku Klux Klan Success on the Chautauqua Circuit The Scopes Trial Conclusion Collected Speeches "The Cross of Gold" "America's Mission" "Lincoln as an Orator" "Democracy's Deeds and Duty" "Religious Liberty" Chronology of Speeches Bibliographical Sources Index
DONALD K. SPRINGEN is Professor of Speech Emeritus at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He contributed to the book American Orators of the Twentieth Century, Critical Studies and Sources (Greenwood Press, 1987), and co-authored Basic Speech for the 1980s. He is also author of Solving Problems in the 1980s through Group Discussion.
?Probably best remembered today for his "The Cross of Gold"
acceptance speech, delivered at the 1896 Democratic national
convention, and his exchanges with Clarence Darrow in the 1925
Scopes Trial, Bryan's speaking brilliance went far beyond these
orations, flavoring his own two presidential campaigns, his tenure
as Secretary of State, and the second campaign of Woodrow Wilson.
This work examines the oratory skills of Bryan, tracing and
analyzing his development as a speaker, and providing the texts of
important addresses that spanned much of his career.?-Reference &
Research Book News
"Probably best remembered today for his "The Cross of Gold"
acceptance speech, delivered at the 1896 Democratic national
convention, and his exchanges with Clarence Darrow in the 1925
Scopes Trial, Bryan's speaking brilliance went far beyond these
orations, flavoring his own two presidential campaigns, his tenure
as Secretary of State, and the second campaign of Woodrow Wilson.
This work examines the oratory skills of Bryan, tracing and
analyzing his development as a speaker, and providing the texts of
important addresses that spanned much of his career."-Reference &
Research Book News
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