Red dynamite : creationism, culture wars, and anticommunism in America / Carl R. Weinberg.

Author: Weinberg, Carl R., 1962- author.

ImprintIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Description356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: belaboring Scopes -- Lighting the Darwin fuse -- The lamb-dragon and the devil's poison -- Blood relationship, Bolshevism, and whoopie parties -- The wolf pack and the upas Tree -- Beast ancestry, dangerous triplets, and damnable heresies -- Flood, fruit, and Satan -- Trees, knees, and nurseries -- The nightcrawler, the wedge, and the bloodiest religion -- Epilogue: the baby Christian and the dark place.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"Red Dynamite examines how opponents of teaching evolutionary science in the United States over the course of the twentieth century used anticommunist politics to demonize Darwinism."-- Provided by publisher.

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