Inherit the Wind
by Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
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Author: Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. LeeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-20
ISBN: 0345501039
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Reviews of Inherit the Wind
Book Review: A Timeless Play As Meaningful Today As When It Was Written
Summary: 5 Stars
Note: I made some Mormon reader angry over my reviews of books written by Mormons out to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews. My review of "Inherit the Wind" is concise and to the point. Oh, I get it. That person is a fanatic, and he or she doesn't like that state of mind exposed.
This explosive drama is a re-enactment of one of the twentieth century's greatest courtroom dramas--the 1925 Scopes Trail. The collision of William Jennings Bryan (a religious fundamentalist) and Clarence Darrow (an agnostic) is wonderfully enacted. Scopes, a high-school teacher, was put on trail for teaching evolution.
The preacher's daughter is in love with Scopes, and the sparks fly over the conflict. The preacher's religious fanaticism threatens to destroy his own family. Thus, the line from Proverbs 11:29: "He that troubleth his own house Shall inherit the wind."
I would also highly recommend Eric Hoffer's classic little book, "The True Believer." A must for educated readers.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
Summary of Inherit the Wind
One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre--based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution--now on Broadway starring Tony AwardŽ Winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, and Directed by Tony AwardŽ Winner Doug HughesThe accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus, the chief gladiators being the two great legal giants of the century. 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.
?Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans. . . . Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. . . . We?re still arguing this case?all the way to the White House.?
?Chicago Tribune
?Powerful . . . a crackling good courtroom play . . . [that] provides two of the juiciest roles in American theater.?
?Copley News Service
?[This] historical drama . . . deserves respect.?
?The Columbus Dispatch
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