This is the 1925 Scopes Monkey's Conversation with the author Brenda Wineapple.

Her new book is Keeping the Faith, God Democracy, and the trial that riveted a nation.

This is the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.

The Principal Clarence Darrow for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution

in Dayton, Tennessee, the most famous event of the moment, 1925. A hundred years later,

Brenda Wineapple has looked at research and the prejudices of the 20th century, and here we are in the 21st. the anxiety, a great deal of attention with new technology, the radio, the automobile, certainly

the national newspapers.

And what we have after a hundred years is no resolution. Evolution does it challenge the

Bible, does it challenge the literal reading of the Bible. Is the literal reading of

the Bible substantive here in the 21st century.

All these questions come up as you're reading Brenda's book.

So here she is speaking to Clarence Darrow, his beginnings, and what sort of attorney he turned into over the course of his life born 1857 died 1938.

Clarence Darrow keeping the faith Brenda Wineapple.

More of this later in the weeks.

John Alco, I think he would be better known today had he not died early on.

He was a very outspoken socialist leaning, shall we say, progressive, who was

governor in Illinois. I mean, He was a big figure in Chicago. He had made a lot of money

investing in real estate. He later lost all of that money. And when young Darrow came to Chicago

from small town in Ohio, he and Algegeld became very, very good friends and Alkad really got Darrow on his way, but Alkah was a person who really felt that, for example, poverty was the cause of crime, not the people were necessary,

not that they were at all bad people, but the conditions, social conditions that surround people cause

crime and that was poverty.

And Darrow learned a great deal from Altgeldt.

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