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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

by Edward J. Larson

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 ed

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9781541646032