A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial

@book{citeulike:1734817, abstract = {{<p> <br>"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 </p> <p>Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken's coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial so galvanized the nation that it eventually inspired a Broadway play and hit movie. </p> <p>Mencken's 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. </p> <p> <br>Shockingly, these reports have never been gathered together into a book of their own-until now. </p> <p> <br> <em>A Religious Orgy in Tennessee</em> includes all of Mencken's reports for <em>The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, </em>and <em>The American Mercury.</em> It even includes his coverage of Bryan's death just days after the trial-an obituary so withering Mencken was forced to rewrite it (both versions are included, although the rewrite seems, if anything, even less forgiving). </p> <p> <br>With the rise of "intelligent design," Mencken's work has never seemed more unnervingly timely-or timeless.</p>}}, author = {Mencken, H. L. }, citeulike-article-id = {1734817}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {1933633174}, month = {September}, posted-at = {2007-10-07 02:52:09}, priority = {4}, publisher = {{Melville House Publishing}}, title = {A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&amp;path=ASIN/1933633174}, year = {2006} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:1734817 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1734817 TI - A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial PB - {Melville House Publishing} SN - 1933633174 N2 - {<p> <br>"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 </p> <p>Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken's coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial so galvanized the nation that it eventually inspired a Broadway play and hit movie. </p> <p>Mencken's 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. </p> <p> <br>Shockingly, these reports have never been gathered together into a book of their own-until now. </p> <p> <br> <em>A Religious Orgy in Tennessee</em> includes all of Mencken's reports for <em>The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, </em>and <em>The American Mercury.</em> It even includes his coverage of Bryan's death just days after the trial-an obituary so withering Mencken was forced to rewrite it (both versions are included, although the rewrite seems, if anything, even less forgiving). </p> <p> <br>With the rise of "intelligent design," Mencken's work has never seemed more unnervingly timely-or timeless.</p>} AU - Mencken, HL PY - 2006/09/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/1933633174 ER -