Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and ReligionModern · History, Nonfiction, Science
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
1997 · 336 pages · Nonfiction
27
Modern
★ 3.85 on Goodreads · 3K ratings
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (1998). 3.85★ from 3K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
27Must-Read Score
- Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
- Readers11 out of 100 · counts 50%+6
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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Where it ranks
- #90 of the 100 science and ideas books we rank
- #203 of the 220 history books we rank
- #308 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #1171 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (1998)
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking
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