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A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial

A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial

A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial
kategoria: History, Miscellaneous
autor: H. L. Mencken
współautorzy: Art Winslow
wydawnictwo: MELVILLE HOUSE PUB
ISBN / EAN: 9781933633176
język: angielski
data wydania: 09/2006
oprawa: miękka
wymiary: 14.3 x 19.2 x 1.7 cm
stron: 232
A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial
cena:110,70 zł
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"The native American Voltaire, the enemy of all puritans, the heretic in the Sunday school, the one-man demolition crew of the genteel tradition."
-Alistair Cooke

Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken's coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial so galvanized the nation that it eventually inspired a Broadway play and the classic Hollywood movie Inherit the Wind.

Mencken' s no-nonsense sensibility is still exciting: his perceptive rendering of the courtroom drama; his piercing portrayals of key figures Scopes, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan; his ferocious take on the fundamentalist culture surrounding it all-including a raucous midnight trip into the woods to witness a secret "holy roller" service.

Shockingly, these reports have never been gathered together into a book of their own-until now.

A Religious Orgy In Tennessee includes all of Mencken's reports for The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, and The American Mercury. It even includes his coverage of Bryan's death just days after the trial-an obituary so withering Mencken was forced by his editors to rewrite it, angering him and leading him to rewrite it yet again in a third version even less forgiving than the first. All three versions are included, as is a complete transcript of the trial's most legendary exchange: Darrow's blistering cross-examination of Bryan.

With the rise of "intelligent design," H.L. Mencken' s work has never seemed more unnervingly timely-or timeless.

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