A Religious Orgy in Tennessee
ISBN-13: 9781933633176
Contributor(s): H L Mencken
Subject: History
Publisher Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publication Date: 21-08-2009
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£17.99
About the book
Collected in print for the first time is Mencken's scathingly honest and fiercely intelligent coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial, with his perceptive rendering of the courtroom drama, piercing portrayals of key figures Scopes, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, and his ferocious take on the fundamentalist culture surrounding the case. It also includes his withering coverage of Bryan's death just days after the trial, as well as a complete transcript of the trial's legendary exchange: Darrow's blistering cross-examination of Bryan.