A Review:
Rural Tennessee in 1925 staged the “Monkey Trial,” then the latest
incarnation of the “trial of the century.” That particular legal sensation –
the misdemeanor prosecution of a part-time biology teacher in alleged violation
of an antievolution law – generated sensational headlines at the time. Ever
since, Hollywood and middle-school players alike have dramatized the
case of John T. Scopes, typically retelling the story in such epic tones that
now, in the public mind, the Scopes Trial is bigger than life and inaccurately
remembered.
Edward Larson’s book aims to set the record straight. His
tightly-written reconstruction of the tale, describing the underhanded
maneuverings and shameless self-promotion that brought the trial to rural Dayton,
Tenn., and the egotistical wrangling within both legal
teams, seeks to deflate the Hollywood myth. In total, Larson does a good job pointing out the
many factual errors in Inherit the Wind (not to mention many
history texts). But Summer of the Gods fails to fully acknowledge
that more might actually be learned by probing the underlying source for all
those popular (mis)conceptions of the Monkey Trial than by retelling the actual
events in the courtroom, which, frankly, tended more toward legal nit-picking
than true actual drama anyway.
The
book’s subtitle promises more than it delivers. Today’s debate between science
and religion remains unexplored in the book, largely because Larson dismisses
the Scopes myth in exchange for the “real story.” How can we understand the
nature of the current debate without grasping the way the issues are currently
couched in people’s minds? The context with which one enters the fray between
science and religion is manifested in one’s response to stories like the one
that played out in Dayton Tennessee. So it seems to make sense to pay attention to
the way such events are popularly understoodA New Way
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