num_pages: 330
description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schoolsIn 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.
language: English
title: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial & America's Continuing Debate over Science & Religion
titlecomplete: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial & America's Continuing Debate over Science & Religion
genres: History, Law, Science, Education, Religion, American History, History Of Science, Politics, Nonfiction, Evolution
ratings_count: 2148
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Basic Books