"Updated with a new afterword"--Cover

Before. Digging up controversy ; Government by the people ; In defense of individual liberty -- During. Choosing sides ; Jockeying for position ; Preliminary rounds ; The trial of the century -- And after. The end of an era ; Retelling the tale ; Distant echoes -- Afterword to the 2020 edition

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. --

Originally published in hardcover in 1997

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