A Righteous Cause
A Righteous Cause

Author: Robert W. Cherny

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2014-10-30

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0806177381

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Three times the Democratic Party’s nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908) and secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan voiced the concerns of many Americans left out of the post–Civil War economic growth. In A Righteous Cause: The Life of Williams Jennings Bryan, Robert W. Cherny presents Bryan’s key role in the Democratic Party’s transformation from the conservatism of Grover Cleveland to the progressivism of Woodrow Wilson. Cherny draws on Bryan’s writings and correspondence to trace his major political crusades for a new currency policy, prohibition, and women’s suffrage, and against colonialism, monopolies, America’s entry into World War I, and the teaching of evolution in the public schools.

Upstream Metropolis
Upstream Metropolis

Author: Lawrence Harold Larsen

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 080320602X

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"Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You , who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man.

Nebraska History
Nebraska History

Author: Michael L. Tate

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1995-08-22

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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The first systematic bibliographical tool ever assembled for the state of Nebraska.

Nebraska Government & Politics
Nebraska Government & Politics

Author: Robert D. Miewald

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780803230781

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Nebraska is famous as the only state with a unicameral legislature, but the government of Nebraska is unique in other ways as well. This first comprehensive handbook is meant to help Nebraskans understand the government of their state; at the same time, it is addressed to political scientists with an interest in state and local government and to people in other states who are considering the adoption of Nebraska's practices. The book sets out not only to describe but also to assess the government of Nebraska in operation and to explain the anomaly of an innovative government in an apparently conservative political setting. The topics discussed include the state constitution, the governor and other elected officials, the legislature, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, the citizens' political attitudes and behavior, trends in state expenditures and revenue, local government, and intergovernmental relations.