Inherit the Wind
The accused man was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were the two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat...
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The accused man was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were the two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves.
At stake was the freedom of every American.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345466273 (0345466276)
Publish date: November 4th 2003
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 129
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Religion,
High School
I read this in English in high school, even though I'm usually not a huge fan of plays, the character and philosophy of Drummond is one that has stuck with me.
Overrated piece of political claptrap with thinly veiled characters that smears the reputation of some of the actual people it portrays. This is one of the books everyone seems to be forced to read in school in the United States. Maybe it's gone out of favor now. It's ostensibly a fictionalizatio...
The goal of this play's authors was to use the 1925 Scopes Trial to dramatize the 1950s "McCarthy hearings," so historical accuracy was not their main goal. For the real story of what happened, read the much more recent book Summer For the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over ...
12 years ago
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