Robert M. (shotokanchef) reviewed on 9/26/2010 + 813 more book reviews

The play opened in 1955, just months before I graduated from high school. Why, I wonder, did I never hear of it? Why, also, did it never pop up years later in college? The basis for the courtroom drama is the Snopes Trial of July 1925 in Dayton, TN. All of the pomposity and inaneness of the trial are here, but there is a tongue-in-cheek approach to the dialog that makes this more about egos than about church-state separation. Did it happen? Yes! Is it settled? No! It is still being tested, in some manner, in the courts every day.

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