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   Aug 11, 2024 · The critic and historian Brenda Wineapple points to an answer in “Keeping the Faith,” her surprisingly timely new book about a trial that happened a century ago. On a spring day in 1925, a ...

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   Jul 29, 2024 · Michael Luo reviews Brenda Wineapple’s “Keeping the Faith,” which studies the Scopes trial, and considers the rise of the religious right in America.

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   Sep 4, 2024 · BOOK BY BRENDA WINEAPPLE RANDOM HOUSE, 2024 “It’s all about the fabulous monkey trial that rocked America!” That was the slogan on the poster of the 1960 film Inherit the Wind, but it describes Keeping the Faith, Brenda Wineapple’s new book about the Scopes trial just as well—or even better, considering that Inherit the Wind was only loosely based on the events in Dayton, Tennessee ...

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   Aug 13, 2024 · Keeping The Faith is a great nonfiction book about the Scopes Trial. I’m sure everyone knows the basics. In 1925, Tennessee passed The Butler Bill, which forbade teaching evolution in schools. In Dayton,Tennessee, a group of locals in conjunction with the ACLU decided to test that resolution, which they deemed unconstitutional.

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6. www.bookreporter.com › reviews › keeping-the-faithKeeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted ...

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   Aug 24, 2024 · In KEEPING THE FAITH, Brenda Wineapple explores how and why the Scopes trial quickly seemed a circus-like media sensation, drawing massive crowds and worldwide attention. She takes us into the early years of the 20th century --- years of racism, intolerance and world war --- to illuminate, through this pivotal legal showdown, a seismic period in American history.

7. www.theatlantic.com › books › archiveThe Scopes Trial Wasn’t Just a Debate Between Science and ...

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   Aug 29, 2024 · In her new book, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation, Brenda Wineapple offers a definitive account of the 1925 trial, in which a small-town teacher was brought ...

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   Oct 1, 2024 · In Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation, experienced non-fiction author Brenda Wineapple writes an account of the Scopes Trial, an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded ...