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pb |
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9781933633176 |
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Melville House |
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2006-10-10 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
With the rise of "intelligent design," H.L. Mencken's legendary coverage of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial - collected here for the first time as a single volume - has never seemed more timely...or timeless. Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, these reports by the most famous newspaperman in American history are still exciting: his perceptive rendering of the courtroom drama; his perceptive rendering of the courtroom drama; his piercing portrayals of key figures John Scopes, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan; and 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. This volume includes all of Mencken's daily reports for The Baltimore Sun, as well as additional stories filed for The Nation and The American Mercury. It also includes his coverage of Bryan's death just days after the trial - with an obituary so withering Mencken was forced to rewrite it - plus numerous rare photos and the full transcript of Darrow's historic cross-examination of Bryan.
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