2006 · New York:
by LARSON, Edward J. (b. 1953).
New York:: Perseus Books Group, 2006., 2006. 8vo. [5], x, [2], 330 pp. Figs., index. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. ISBN: 9780465075102 "Larson received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. The book argues that Inherit the Wind (both the play and the movie) misrepresented the actual Scopes Trial. Unlike in that play and movie, in which reason and tolerance triumph over religiously motivated, unsophisticated anti-evolutionists, Larson's book portrays the trial as an opening salvo in an enduring twentieth-century cultural war involving powerful national forces in science, religion, law and politics. "Indeed," he concludes in the book, "the issues raised by the Scopes trial and legend endure precisely because they embody the characteristically American struggle between individual liberty and majoritarian democracy, and cast it in the timeless debate over science and religion."" [Wikip.].
(Inventory #: PW1434)