# Summer for the Gods

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- Book: [Summer for the Gods](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-larson/summer-for-the-gods) ([Summer for the Gods.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-larson/summer-for-the-gods.md))
- Authors: [Edward Larson](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-larson)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6507-510-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2006-10-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the 20th century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial that pit William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher named John Scopes into a famous debate over science, religion, and their place in public education That trial marked the start of a battle that continues to this day-in Dover, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Cobb County, Georgia, and many other cities and states throughout the country. Edward Larson's classic, Summer for the Gods , received the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1998 and is the single most authoritative account of a pivotal event whose combatants remain at odds in school districts and courtrooms. For this edition, Larson has added a new preface that assesses the state of the battle between creationism and evolution, and points the way to how it might potentially be resolved.