美国律师克劳伦斯丹诺.ppt

William Jennings Bryan,Clarence Darrow,Politician—Democrat， the 41st United States Secretary of StateOne of the best known orators A Presbyterian(长老教会员)A peace advocateA prohibitionist(禁酒主义者)An opponent of Darwinism“The Great Commoner.“,William Jennings Bryan 威廉 詹宁斯 布莱恩,(19 March 1860 – 26 July 1925),,He had an active political career during his entire life, from a young lawyer entering the House of Representatives . He won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1890. At 36, Bryan ran for presidency. He was a three-time Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States noted for his deep, commanding voice.Bryan served as secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson. However, he resigned in 1915 as World War I approached because he opposed Wilson's foreign policies, which he believed it would draw America into a war against Germany.,William Jennings Bryan’s political career,Bryan brought many of his religious beliefs to the Senate. He supported prohibition, which made the buying and selling of alcohol illegal in the U.SHe also supported an amendment to the Constitution preventing schools from teaching evolution (the theory that man developed, over millions of years, from apes).,,William Jennings Bryan ’s religious beliefs,,“The Great Commoner“,A tireless defender of the small farmer and laborer, Bryan worked closely with the Populist Party, a group of poor Midwestern and Southern farmers who suffered economically due to low prices for their crops, which they blamed on Northeastern business interests. Bryan's efforts on behalf of farmers and laborers (the so-called “common“ people) earned him the title the “Great Commoner.“,A “sophisticated country lawyer” in America Clarence Darrow 克劳伦斯.丹诺,(1857-1938),One of the greatest lawyerin the worldA leading member of the American Civil Liberties UnionA gifted speakerA writerA positive atheism,Darrow’s most famous criminal trial was the 1924 Leopold and Loeb case, in which two Chicago boys had wantonly murdered a 14-year-old boy Bobby Franks. In the Scopes trial, Darrow’s defense, and particularly his cross-examination of William J. Bryan, who spoke for the biblical, antiscientific, fundamentalist side, served to discredit religious fundamentalism and won national attention.,The famous cases in the U.S.:,As a speaker, he moved tens of thousands to an appreciation of Free thought and humanism.,As a writer, Darrow reached even a larger audience with his messages of enlightenment and realistic evaluations of supernaturalism.,Voltaire Why I am an agnostic The Myth of the Soul Absurdities of the Bible Facing Life Fearlessly,Some of his works :,。