Author: EDWARD J. LARSON
Title: Summer for the Gods. The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Description: Basic Books, 1997. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 318. The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes ''Monkey'' Trial and the battle over evolution and creationism in America's schools, now updated with a new afterword.nIn the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher named John Scopes, represented by Clarence Darrow and the ACLU, in a famous debate over science, religion, and their place in public education. That trial marked the start of a battle that continues to this day - in cities and states throughout the country.nEdward Larson's classic Summer for the Gods - winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History - is the single most authoritative account of this pivotal event. The ''Monkey Trial,'' as it was playfully nicknamed, was instigated by the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge a controversial Tennessee law banning the teaching of human evolution in public schools. The Tennessee statute represented the first major victory for an intense national campaign against Darwinism, launched in the 1920s by Protestant fundamentalists and led by the famed politician and orator William Jennings Bryan. At the behest of the ACLU, a teacher named John Scopes agreed to challenge the statute, and what resulted was a trial of mythic proportions. Bryan joined the prosecutors and acclaimed criminal attorney Clarence Darrow led the defense - a dramatic legal matchup that spurred enormous media attention and later inspired the classic play Inherit the Wind. ISBN: 9780465075096. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780465075096
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Title: Summer for the Gods. The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Description: Basic Books, 1997. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 318. The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes ''Monkey'' Trial and the battle over evolution and creationism in America's schools, now updated with a new afterword.nIn the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher named John Scopes, represented by Clarence Darrow and the ACLU, in a famous debate over science, religion, and their place in public education. That trial marked the start of a battle that continues to this day - in cities and states throughout the country.nEdward Larson's classic Summer for the Gods - winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History - is the single most authoritative account of this pivotal event. The ''Monkey Trial,'' as it was playfully nicknamed, was instigated by the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge a controversial Tennessee law banning the teaching of human evolution in public schools. The Tennessee statute represented the first major victory for an intense national campaign against Darwinism, launched in the 1920s by Protestant fundamentalists and led by the famed politician and orator William Jennings Bryan. At the behest of the ACLU, a teacher named John Scopes agreed to challenge the statute, and what resulted was a trial of mythic proportions. Bryan joined the prosecutors and acclaimed criminal attorney Clarence Darrow led the defense - a dramatic legal matchup that spurred enormous media attention and later inspired the classic play Inherit the Wind. ISBN: 9780465075096. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780465075096
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2486524
- Book number: 2486524
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