American inquisitors
Subtitle: a commentary on Dayton and Chicago
By: by Walter Lippmann...
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1928
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Teaching, Freedom of -- United States; Modernist-fundamentalist controversy; United States -- Historiography
Description: Thomas Jefferson is a character in a recurring "Dialogue on Olympus" as the author ponders the irony of the man who professes to be Jefferson's most loyal disciple acting as a prosecutor in the Scopes trial. Socrates, however, has the last word. --Frank Shuffelton.
Notes: "Page-Barbour lectures"

"The subject of these lectures is the predicament of the modern teacher under popular government during the conflict over religious fundamentalism and over patriotic tradition."- Pref.