Further Reading
Brenda Wineapple's reading list for Keeping the Faith
We have begun inviting guests on The World in Time to share Further Reading lists that, in the words of Daniel Mendelsohn, aim “to be of use to general readers interested in learning more.” Here, Brenda Wineapple, longtime member of the Lapham’s Quarterly editorial board and a guest on Episode 16 of our podcast, shares a Further Reading list for those interested in learning more about the history of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. You can read “The Trial of the Century”—an excerpt from Wineapple’s preface to Keeping the Faith—on our website.
Bashford, Alison. The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Bryan, William Jennings and Mary B. Bryan. The Memories of William Jennings Bryan. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1925.
Bryan, William Jennings. In His Image. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1922.
Bryan, William Jennings. The Last Message of William Jennings Bryan. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1925.
Darrow, Clarence. “Bryan.” The New Republic, May 15, 1929.
Darrow, Clarence. In the Clutches of the Law: Clarence Darrow’s Letters. ed. Randall Tietjen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
Darrow, Clarence. The Story of My Life. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932.
Farrell, John A. Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned. New York: Vintage, 2012.
Ginger, Ray. Six Days or Forever?: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977.
Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981.
Hays, Arthur Garfield. Let Freedom Ring. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928.
Hochschild, Adam. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis. Boston: Mariner Books, 2022.
Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. New York: G. Braziller, 1959.
Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Larson, Edward J. Summer for the God: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
Mencken, Henry L. “In Tennessee.” The Nation, July 1, 1925.
Mencken, Henry L. “Battle Now Over.” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 18, 1925.
Mencken, Henry L. “Bryan.” The Evening Sun, July 27, 1925.
Mencken, Henry L. Letters. ed. Guy J. Forgue. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.
Okrent, Daniel. The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. New York: Scribner, 2019.
Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Scribner, 2010.
Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth. Mencken: The American Iconoclast. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Scopes, John T. and James Presley. Center of the Storm: Memoirs of John T. Scopes. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
St. Johns, Adela Rogers. Final Verdict. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962.
Stannard, David E. Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow’s Spectacular Last Case. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.
Stevens, Doris. Jailed for Freedom. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920.