Summary:
Every era has its trial of the century. In 1925, Tennessee prosecuted John T. Scopes, a high school teacher, for teaching evolution in violation of state law. The sensational trial drew nationwide attention and included an epic clash between two lawyers – William Jennings Bryan, one of the prosecutors, and Clarence Darrow, one of the defense attorneys.
In Keeping the Faith, Brenda Wineapple provides an account of the Scopes trial while exploring the case from different perspectives. In a front-cover New York Times review, Matthew Stewart described the book as “history at its most delicious, presented free from the musty smell of the archives where it was clearly assembled with great care.” Ms. Wineapple discusses the legal, political, and cultural aspects of the Scopes trial with Associate Dean Rodger Citron in this Touro Law Review podcast.
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Learn More About Brenda Wineapple
Brenda Wineapple is the author of seven number of books, including The Impeachers, an account of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment in 1868, a New York Times best book of 2019 and its editor’s choice, and White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle. She’s the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including a Literature Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters; a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, including a Public Scholars Award, and most recently she was named a fellow of the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the New York Review of Books and currently teaches nonfiction in the MFA program at Columbia University.
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