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

A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial
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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."
â€”Alistair Cooke

Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Menckenâ€™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.

Menckenâ€™ 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 allâ€”including a raucous midnight trip into the woods to witness a secret â€œholy rollerâ€ service.

Shockingly, these reports have never been gathered together into a book of their ownâ€”until now.

A Religious Orgy In Tennessee includes all of Menckenâ€™s reports for The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, and The American Mercury. It even includes his coverage of Bryanâ€™s death just days after the trialâ€”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 trialâ€™s most legendary exchange: Darrowâ€™s blistering cross-examination of Bryan.

With the rise of â€œintelligent design,â€ H.L. Menckenâ€™ s work has never seemed more unnervingly timelyâ€”or timeless.
Country USA
Brand Melville House
Manufacturer Melville House
Binding Paperback
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2006-09-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781933633176

Country	USA
Brand	Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
Binding	Paperback
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2006-09-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781933633176

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

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