Trials of the Monkey An Accidental Memoir
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Card covers show light shelf wear, some corner of card covers.; A bright, solid book.; 5.5 X 0.86 X 8.5 inches; 367 pages; ""When Darwin called his second book The Descent of Man instead of The As...
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Card covers show light shelf wear, some corner of card covers.; A bright, solid book.; 5.5 X 0.86 X 8.5 inches; 367 pages; ""When Darwin called his second book The Descent of Man instead of The Ascent of Man he was thinking of his progeny." So declares Darwin's great-great grandson Matthew Chapman as he leaves behind his stressful career as a Hollywood screenwriter and travels to Dayton, Tennessee where in 1925 creationist opposition to the teaching of evolution in schools was played out in a famous legal drama, the Scopes Monkey Trial. The purpose of this journey is to see if opinions have changed in the seventy- five intervening years. A defiant atheist, Chapman is confronted not only by the fundamentalist beliefs that continue to banish the theory of evolution but by his own spiritual malaise as the outward journey becomes an inward quest, a tragicomic "accidental memoir"."
Product Info
ISBN: 0312300786
ISBN-13: 9780312300784
Publisher: Picador
Year: 2002
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
First Edition
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