As the first major one-volume biography of William Jennings Bryan to appear since the years immediately following his death, BRYAN is a notable publishing event. Today Bryan is largely remembered as the youthful orator from Nebraska who stampeded the Democratic Presidential convention of 1896 with his Cross of Gold speech and as the old man who was humiliated by Clarence Darrow in the Scopes trial. Probably no political figure of comparable statue and influence has been so wretchedly neglected or so sketchily recalled. BRYAN is not a reevaluation; it is a monumental biography of a man whose towering importance has been wrongfully eroded by time.