Rabu, 09 Agustus 2017

We’ve Been Here Before: What Occupy Wall Street Can Learn From William Jennings Bryan

We think of William Jennings Bryan as the creationist blow- hard outwitted by Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Trial, a judgment embalmed in umpteen high school productions of Inherit the Wind. But before Scopes, Bryan ran for president three times, and his first run in 1896 was the most radical campaign of any major party …

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