Inherit the Wind (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781586638290 (1586638297)
Publish date: June 13th 2003
Publisher: SparkNotes
Pages no: 64
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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