Keeping the faith : God, democracy, and the trial that riveted a nation / Brenda Wineapple.
| Author/creator | Wineapple, Brenda author. |
| Other author | Tennessee. |
| Other author | Tennessee. County Court (Rhea County) |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Random House, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | xxx, 509 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | God, democracy, and the trial that riveted a nation |
| Contents | The beginning of wisdom, 1858-1914 -- A cross of gold, and the man with the hoe, 1860-1908 -- Huxley, Nietzsche, Mencken, 1876-1917 -- Making the world safe, 1912-1918 -- Rebirth of a nation : the Ku Klux Klan, 1919-1922 -- Prohibition, scripture, and the crown of righteousness, 1920-1923 -- Leopold and Loeb and the book of love, 1924 -- A revival, 1924 -- The man everybody knew, 1925 -- The hand that writes the paycheck, 1925 -- The great race -- Dayton -- Day one -- And it was good -- Render unto Caesar -- The fear -- It is in -- Come unto me -- The witness -- Salt of the earth -- The verdict -- Keeping the faith -- I have finished the race -- A little learning is a dangerous thing -- The lost cause. |
| Abstract | "In 1925, hundreds of people descended on the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, where a young schoolteacher named John T. Scopes was put on trial for including a reference to evolution in his teaching. Darwin's concept that species evolved over time through natural selection was misunderstood as challenging the Bible, faith in God, and as suggesting that men were descended from monkeys. Two legendary men, Clarence Darrow for the defense, and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution, drew massive crowds in a trial that quickly became a circus-like media sensation. Darrow argued for individual freedom including in religion and education, and Bryan argued from a fundamentalist Christian perspective that evolution undermined faith in God and the literal truth of the Bible. Historian Brenda Wineapple brings to life the entirety of this dramatic and colorful period that exposed foundation divisions in America across race, class, and religion. Bryan had run several times, unsuccessfully, for President, and his political efforts and ambitions, vividly chronicled in this book, culminated in Dayton. Darrow was a leader of the ACLU and known as a fervent defender of laborers, and his long history of legal defense in matters of individual rights also reached its apogee in this trial of the century. In his defense of Scopes and the First Amendment protection of individual liberty, Darrow said: 'No subject possesses the minds of men like religious bigotry, and hate, and these fires are being lighted today in America'"-- Provided by the publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-489) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Wineapple, Brenda. Keeping the faith New York : Random House, 2024 9780593229934 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023050454 |
| ISBN | 9780593229927 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0593229924 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780593229934 electronic book |
| ISBN | 0593229932 electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 40032421275 |
| Stock number | Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | KF224 .S3 W56 2024 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |