William Jennings Bryan/Bibliography

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Biographies

• 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 edition vol 1 online edition vol 2 online edition 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). online edition
• Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2006).
• Koenig, Louis W. Bryan: A Political Biography of William Jennings Bryan (1971)
• Werner; M. R. Bryan (1929). online edition

Specialized studies

• James A. Barnes, "Myths of the Bryan Campaign," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 34 (Dec. 1947) online in JSTOR
• Cherny, Robert W. "William Jennings Bryan and the Historians." Nebraska History 1996 77(3-4): 184-193. Issn: 0028-1859. analysis of the historiography
• Edwards, Mark. "Rethinking the Failure of Fundamentalist Political Antievolutionism after 1925" Fides et Historia 2000 32(2): 89-106. Issn: 0884-5379 Argues that fundamentalists thought they had won Scopes trial but death of Bryan shook their confdence.
• Glad, Paul W. McKinley, Bryan and the People (1991), on 1896.
• Hohenstein, Kurt. "William Jennings Bryan and the Income Tax: Economic Statism and Judicial Usurpation in the Election of 1896" Journal of Law & Politics 2000 16(1): 163-192. Issn: 0749-2227
• Jeansonne, Glen. "Goldbugs, Silverites, and Satirists: Caricature and Humor in the Presidential Election of 1896." Journal of American Culture 1988 11(2): 1-8. Issn: 0191-1813
• Larson, Edward. Summer for the Gods (1997), on the Scopes Trial.
• Lienesch, Michael. In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement (2007)
• Longfield, Bradley J. "For Church and Country: the Fundamentalist-modernist Conflict in the Presbyterian Church." Journal of Presbyterian History 2000 78(1): 34-50. Issn: 0022-3883 Puts Scopes in larger religious context
• Mahan, Russell L. "William Jennings Bryan and the Presidential Campaign of 1896" White House Studies 2003 3(2): 215-227. Issn: 1535-4738
• Murphy, Troy A. "William Jennings Bryan: Boy Orator, Broken Man, and the 'Evolution' of America's Public Philosophy." Great Plains Quarterly 2002 22(2): 83-98. Issn: 0275-7664
• Springen, Donald K. William Jennings Bryan: Orator of Small-Town America Greenwood Press, 1991 online edition
• Taylor, Jeff. Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy (2006), on Bryan's place in Democratic Party history and ideology.
• Whicher, George F. ed. William Jennings Bryan and the Campaign of 1896 (1953), excerpts from primary and secondary sources online edition
• Wood, L. Maren. "The Monkey Trial Myth: Popular Culture Representations of the Scopes Trial" Canadian Review of American Studies 2002 32(2): 147-164. Issn: 0007-7720

Primary sources

• Bryan, Mary Baird, ed. The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan (1925). online edition
• Bryan, William Jennings. First Battle (1897), speeches from 1896 campaign. online edition
• Bryan, William Jennings. Speeches of William Jennings Bryan (1909) online edition
• Ginger, Ray, ed. William Jennings Bryan; Selections (1967).
• Whicher, George F. ed. William Jennings Bryan and the Campaign of 1896 (1953), excerpts from primary and secondary sources online edition