num_pages: 228
description: The year is 1925 and the students of Dayton Tennessee are ready for a summer of fishing swimming some working and drinking root beer floats at Robinsons Drugstore. But when their science teacher J. T. Scopes is arrested for having taught Darwins theory of evolution in class it seems it wont be just any ordinary summer in Dayton.As Scopes trial proceeds the small town is faced with astonishing nationwide reporters lawyers scientists religious leaders and tourists. But amidst the circus-like atmosphere is a threatening sense of tensionnot only in the courtroom but among even the strongest of friends. This compelling novel in poems chronicles a controversy with a profound impact on science and culture in Americaand one that continues to this day.
language: English
title: Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers