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Religious Orgy in Tennessee A Reporters Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial

by H L Mencken
Religious Orgy in Tennessee A Reporters Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial

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"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. Menckens 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.

Menckens 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 Menckens reports for The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, and The American Mercury. It even includes his coverage of Bryans death just days after the trial—an obituary so withering Mencken was forced by his editors to rewrite it, angering him and leading him to rewrite it yet again in a third version even less forgiving than the first. All three versions are included, as is a complete transcript of the trials most legendary exchange: Darrows blistering cross-examination of Bryan.

With the rise of “intelligent design,” H.L. Menckens work has never seemed more unnervingly timely—or timeless.


About the Author

H.L. Mencken is one of American history's foremost journalists. Writing from the turn of the century until the late 1940's for the Baltimore Sun newspaper, he was known for a savage wit, an erudite if salty language, and an iconoclastic outlook that saw through politicians and fads with fearless abandon. He died in 1956.

Editor Art Winslow writes frequently for the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Bookforum, and was, for many years, Literary Editor and Executive Editor of The Nation.


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ISBN:
9781933633176
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/01/2006
Publisher:
MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING
Pages:
206
Height:
.66IN
Width:
5.64IN
Thickness:
.66 in.
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2006
UPC Code:
2801933633178
Author:
H L Mencken
Intro:
Art Winslow
Author:
H. L. Mencken
Subject:
Evolution (Biology)
Subject:
World History-General
Subject:
Study and teaching

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