Summer for the Gods

The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion

Edward J. Larson

  • Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History

Preface

Introduction

PART I: BEFORE…

1. Digging Up Controversy

2. Government by the People

3. In Defense of Individual Liberty

PART II: …DURING…

4. Choosing Sides

5. Jockeying for Position

6. Preliminary Rounds

7. The Trial of the Century

PART III: …AND AFTER

8. The End of an Era

9. Retelling the Tale

10. Distant Echoes

Notes

Index

  • Cover: Summer for the Gods

Edward J. Larson is Hugh & Hazel Darling Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law.