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Mencken, H L
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Fiction
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en-US
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A religious orgy in Tennessee: a reporter's account of the Scopes monkey trial
β Scribed by H.L. Mencken
- Publisher
- Melville House Pub
- Year
- 2010;2006
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 271 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1612190316
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"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 on H.L. Mencken
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...
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