The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan. First edition.
Bryan, William Jennings, [1860-1925]. Bryan, Mary Baird, [1861-1930]. The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan. Chicago: John C. Winston Co., [1925]. 560 pp. 29 unnumbered leaves of plates. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt stamped, very good, in worn dust jacket. Front free endpaper missing. Front hinge cracked, but holding. Author's presentation inscription "With grateful appreciation/ of/ Mary Baird Bryan/ to/ Mr. Albert E. Boynton/ March 17th/ 1926" to front pastedown. A good copy. $85. * This book is a posthumous collaboration between the famous politician William Jennings Bryan and his wife, Mary Baird Bryan. The book provides a comprehensive look at the life and belief system of the three time Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State. Bryan began the memoirs but died before their completion when his wife finished the work by interspersing his draft chapters with her own commentary and selections from his private correspondence and speeches. Mary [Elizabeth] Baird Bryan, [1861-1930], was an American attorney, writer, suffragist and wife of the great orator and three time Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, [1860-1925]. Albert E[ugene] Boynton, [1875-1945], was a lawyer and California state senator. (findagrave.com/memorial/45839121/albert-eugene-boynton).
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