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Author Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)

Title Summer for the gods the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion / Edward J. Larson
Edition [Updated edition]
Published New York : Basic Books, 2020

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Summary The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools. In 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. Edward Larson's classic Summer for the Gods -- winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History -- is the single most authoritative account of this pivotal event. An afterword assesses the state of the battle between creationism and evolution, and points the way to how it might potentially be resolved
Notes Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed June 22, 2020)
Subject Scopes, John Thomas -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Scopes, John Thomas fast
Subject Evolution (Biology) -- Study and teaching -- Law and legislation -- United States
Trials (Heresy) -- Tennessee
Religion and science -- United States -- History
Science -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Religion in the public schools -- United States
Constitutional law -- United States.
Democracy -- United States
Education.
EDUCATION / History.
Trials (Heresy)
Science -- Study and teaching
Religion in the public schools
Religion and science
Evolution (Biology) -- Study and teaching -- Law and legislation
Democracy
Constitutional law
Education
United States
Tennessee
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Recorded Books, Inc.
ISBN 9781541646377
1541646371
9781541646025
1541646029