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Splat · 07-14-2002, 03:48 PM

Trials of the Monkey by Matthew Chapman?

He's one of Darwin's great-great grandsons (and a "defiant athiest"). The book is about his trip to Dayton, TN to see a re-enactment of the Scopes trial.

hyzer · 07-14-2002, 04:24 PM

Yes, I read it.

Entertaining. Chapman writes movie scripts for a living and leads, what most would agree, is a very secular life style. He has included a nice cross section of the sort of folk he found on his travels to Tenn. And some nice history of the trial itself. The end of the book has an anticlimatic tone (which I won't describe).

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Splat Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hell, PA Posts: 599	Has anybody read... Trials of the Monkey by Matthew Chapman? He's one of Darwin's great-great grandsons (and a "defiant athiest"). The book is about his trip to Dayton, TN to see a re-enactment of the Scopes trial.

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hyzer Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: philadelphia Posts: 1,844	Yes, I read it. Entertaining. Chapman writes movie scripts for a living and leads, what most would agree, is a very secular life style. He has included a nice cross section of the sort of folk he found on his travels to Tenn. And some nice history of the trial itself. The end of the book has an anticlimatic tone (which I won't describe).

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