{"product_id":"keeping-the-faith-god-democracy-and-the-trial-that-riveted-a-nation-paperback","title":"Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrenda Wineapple\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - \"Brenda Wineapple's wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present.\"--Jon Meacham\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"History at its most delicious.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e (front page review, Editors' Choice) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today--divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Propulsive . . . a terrific story about a pivotal moment in our history.\"--Ken Burns\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eTHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE\u003c\/i\u003e'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"No subject possesses the minds of men like religious bigotry and hate, and these fires are being lighted today in America.\" So said legendary attorney Clarence Darrow as hundreds of people descended on the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, for the trial of a schoolteacher named John T. Scopes, who was charged with breaking the law by teaching evolution to his biology class in a public school. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrenda Wineapple, the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Impeachers, \u003c\/i\u003e explores how and why the Scopes trial quickly seemed a circus-like media sensation, drawing massive crowds and worldwide attention. Darrow, a brilliant and controversial lawyer, said in his electrifying defense of Scopes that people should be free to think, worship, and learn. William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic nominee for president, argued for the prosecution that evolution undermined the fundamental, literal truth of the Bible and created a society without morals, meaning, and hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eKeeping the Faith, \u003c\/i\u003e Wineapple takes us into the early years of the twentieth century--years of racism, intolerance, and world war--to illuminate, through this pivotal legal showdown, a seismic period in American history. At its heart, the Scopes trial dramatized conflicts over many of the fundamental values that define America, and that continue to divide Americans today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrenda Wineapple\u003c\/b\u003e's books include\u003ci\u003e The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, \u003c\/i\u003e selected by a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e critic as one of the ten best nonfiction works of 2019; \u003ci\u003eEcstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877, \u003c\/i\u003e a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book; and \u003ci\u003eWhite Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, \u003c\/i\u003e a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, among other honors, Wineapple has also received three National Endowment Fellowships, including its Public Scholars Award. She writes regularly for such publications as \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2023, she was selected a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.14 x 6.29 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52470442688819,"sku":"9780593229941","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/1JpCZ0ud5E9780593229941.webp?v=1759420380","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/keeping-the-faith-god-democracy-and-the-trial-that-riveted-a-nation-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}