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Title Statement | The trial of the century / Gregg Jarrett with Don Yaeger. |
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Author | Jarrett, Gregg |
Additional Contributors | Yaeger, Don |
Publication | New York: Threshold Editions,2023. |
Edition | First Threshold editions hardcover edition. |
Extent of Item | xxiii, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates |
ISBN | 9781982198572 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07025957 |
Contents | Preface: Discovering Darrow and the "trial of the century" --"Hell is going to pop now" --Champion of the underdog --"A passion for lost causes" --"A town of hopes and nightmares" --The crusade against teaching evolution --"We've just arrested a man for teaching evolution" --"An ordinary young man comes to Dayton" --"The principles of our government and the principles of Christian faith" --"I want Darrow" --The circus comes to Dayton --Darrow in the lion's den --The prosecution makes its case --"Are we entitled to show what evolution is?" --The ruling on expert witnesses --"I haven't gotten through with him yet" --"He was not, for God took him" --"You can only be free if I am free" --Epilogue: Speaking freely and unafraid. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary | "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."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Evolution (Biology)--Study and teaching--Law and legislation--Case studies--Tennessee |
Science teachers | |
By Name | Bryan, William Jennings,1860-1925 |
Darrow, Clarence,1857-1938 | |
Scopes, John Thomas | |
By Location | Dayton (Tenn.)--Trials, litigation, etc |