The Trial of the Century
(2023)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Threshold Editions, 2023
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (304 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9781982198602 MWT19343941, 1982198605 19343941
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

A gripping and comprehensive history of the iconic attorney Clarence Darrow and the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Russia Hoax". Nearly a century ago, famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow defended schoolteacher John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that brought the attention of the entire country to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. Darrow's seminal defense of freedom of speech helped form the legal bedrock on which our civil liberties depend today. Expertly researched, eye-opening, and stirring, The Trial of the Century calls upon our past to unite Americans in the defense of the free exchange of ideas, especially in this divided time

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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