Keeping the Faith

Praise

“Captivating . . . Keeping the Faith is history at its most delicious, presented free from the musty smell of the archives where it was clearly assembled with great care. The struggles of yesteryear between reason and ignorance do not merely illuminate those of the present. They are the same struggle. This is a story from a past that isn’t even past.”—The New York Times (front page review, Editors’ Choice)

“A briskly told chronicle by Brenda Wineapple, who has a knack for producing popular histories with contemporary resonance.”—The New Yorker

“If you’re eager for answers to the presidential election, start here. If you’re merely looking for gripping history . . . ditto. Wineapple, one of our great contemporary American historians . . . doesn’t explicitly lay out the [Scopes] trial’s resonance 100 years later. She doesn’t need to.”—Chicago Tribune

“Wineapple’s book provides a vivid account of how fear has always acted on our national consciousness—and a way of coming to terms with our own fractured political present. . . . Outstanding.”—The Atlantic

“Brilliant . . . Keeping the Faith could not have been published at a more appropriate time.”—Bookreporter

“No one has written a richer or more dramatic narrative of the [Scopes] trial or its leading combatants than Wineapple has in Keeping the Faith.”—The Nation

“[A] gripping and expansive reexamination of the Scopes Monkey Trial . . . This historical investigation pulses with urgency.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“The notorious ‘monkey trial’ in expert hands.”—Kirkus Reviews

“A brilliant account of the Scopes trial, as fair-minded as it is well written, as compelling as it is richly detailed—and as relevant to today’s America as it is faithful to the America of a century ago.”—Geoffrey C. Ward, author of A First-Class Temperament

“Brenda Wineapple’s wonderful account sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the unfolding struggles of the urgent present.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of And There Was Light

“In Brenda Wineapple’s hands, a century-old event opens a window on our country today, [and] the impulse to label certain ideas as too dangerous to be taught.”—Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist

“[Wineapple] recounts a battle about science, religion, truth, and freedom of thought that seems much closer than a century ago.”—Drew Gilpin Faust, New York Times bestselling author of Necessary Trouble

“In this propulsive account of the 1925 Scopes trial, Wineapple exposes fault lines in America that continue to haunt us today.”—Ken Burns

“A master of historical narrative, [Wineapple] has given us a bracing and illuminating tale for our own troubled times.”—Evan Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Road to Surrender

“Much of what we think we know about the famous Scopes trial, we don’t. Our misconceptions need correction—and there is no better corrector than Brenda Wineapple.”—Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg