Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1929, Page 11

YAN an American Phenomenon by M. R. WerNER Author of BARNUM, BRIGHAM YOUNG, TAMMANY HALL E came like a flaming mcteor out of the West! . . . A young man with a great shock of black hair . . . a hawk- like face . . . the voice of a Demos- thenes. He swooped down upon the panicky scene of American politics with his “cross of gold” and his “crown of thorns”. .. In the flood of gelden oratory he swept to the leadership of his Party, and leaped, overnight, from obscurity to the heights!— .« . M. R. WERNER, noted author of Barnum, best seller of a few years ago, astute biographer of Americans, has turned the flashlight of his genius on WiLLiam JENNINGS BrRyaN, phenomenon among American political figures . . . Through -page after page, fascinating chapter after fascinating chapter, WERNER paints the most vivid pen portrait ever done of the man whose fight for oratory. won him immortality in the ranks of the world’s great spell-binders. This is the story of Bryan who became candidate for the presidency at the age of thirty-six. Bryan, unknown and unsung, who stood up before a jaded, bewildered Democratic Convention in _installment in the the closing years of the last century, and shouted: “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns! . . . You shall not crucify man- kind upon a cross of gold!”—and with those words electrified a nation! This is the story of Bryan, the orator; Bryan, the pacifist; Bryan, champion of Free Silver; Bryan, the fundamentalist; Bryan, the prohibitionist; Bryan, whose shrewd political jockeying made Wilson president; Bryan, surnamed the Great Commoner. Bryan, painted against a background that embraces wars, panics, torch-light parades and Prohibition. This is the story that will undoubtedly be one of the literary sensations of the coming season. LIBERTY wants its readers to get Werner’s great story first. You’ll find the opening M. R. WERNER, though still under thirty-five, has achieved wide fame as a specialist in unusual biogra- phies of unusual Americans. He has been a newspaper reporter in New York; spe- cial correspondent abroad. ‘WERNER won his first big suc- cess with his. book Barvum which was a leading best seller across the country. Hisstory on BRYAN promises to be just as popular. It will appear first as a serial in LigerTy! issue of LIBERTY Now ON SALE AT ALLNEWSSTANDS! ... Don’t miss a single chapter. Start it Topay! gliberty A M’eekly fbr Everybody On sale today at all newsstands!