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Volume: 7Publisher: New York, London : Funk and Wagnalls CompanySubjects: Speeches, addresses, etcNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Volume: 5Publisher: New York, London : Funk and Wagnalls CompanySubjects: Speeches, addresses, etcNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Volume: 9Publisher: New York, London : Funk and Wagnalls CompanyPublication date: 1906Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etcNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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1896. Together with a collection of his speeches and a biographical sketch by his wife. The object of The First Battle is to present an account of the leading events and issues of the most critical (presidential) campaign in American history. The work contains an interesting description of the author's famous tour, including his most important speeches, together with the principal addresses and documents identified with the campaign of 1896; the whole embodying a faithful presentation of the rise and development of the silver movement. It also contains a review of the political situation and an analysis of the election returns. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded. ... Read more

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The presidential election of 1896 was one of the most interesting and important contests in American history, and it was made so not by the winner (a lackluster Ohio politician named William McKinley) but by the loser, William Jennings Bryan. Although best remembered for the first and last moments of his public career (the "Cross of Gold" speech and his championing of creationism at the Scopes Trial), Bryan was in fact the founding father of modern progressivism. Numerous ideas, ranging from the Federal Reserve and the income tax to anti-imperialism and women's suffrage, can be traced to one of Bryan's three presidential campaigns (1896, 1900, and 1908). What's more, Bryan's personality itself is a study in the best aspects of American character - despite his flaws, he was by all accounts a brilliant orator, devoted husband, loving father, voracious reader and intellectual (although this point is often brought into dispute by his more venomous detractors), sincere believer in democracy and equal opportunity, and often brave champion of causes that no one would touch at the last turn-of-the-century, but which are taken for granted today as being cornerstones of American political progress. This book serves three great functions:
1) It transports the reader back to the presidential election of 1896, truly immersing us in a historic period that has received a much-undeserved obscurity;
2) It shares with us dozens of the early speeches of William Jennings Bryan, thereby exposing us to his oratorical genius and the fertile mind that lay behind the eloquence (reading these speeches is worth the price of the text alone);
3) It gives us an intimate look at the character of William Jennings Bryan himself, a man who brought to the presidency a pro-active and progressive approach that had never before been seen, despite the fact that he was never able to serve in it himself.
The 1890s were a pivotal decade in our nation's history, one in which great and noble men of often diametrically opposing points-of-view (Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, William McKinley, Marcus Hanna, Eugene Debs, John Peter Atgeld, James Weaver, etc) rose to power and prominence. I cannot imagine that a better book either from or about this period has ever been written. Indeed, I can think of no better book ever written about a presidential campaign. This book should be a must-read for anyone who wishes to study American history, political science, liberalism, and/or the art of rhetoric. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Originally published in 1914. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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1924. These chapters are not written from a sectarian or denominational standpoint. The principles and propositions discussed are fundamental. The differences which raise the issues considered, show a line of cleavage that runs through all denominations. Contents: inspiration of the Bible; deity of Christ; virgin birth; blood atonement; bodily resurrection of Jesus; miracles of our Lord; origin of man. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more