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Edward J. Larson

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in Mansfield, Ohio, The United States

September 21, 1953

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Edward J. Larson is the author of many acclaimed works in American history, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the Scopes Trial, Summer for the Gods. He is University Professor of History and Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University, and lives with his family near Los Angeles.

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	Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion 3.88 avg rating — 2,146 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789 4.09 avg rating — 1,751 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign 3.86 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 2007 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership 3.98 avg rating — 715 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration 3.63 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory 3.93 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 2004 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science 3.59 avg rating — 319 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy 3.76 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evolution's Workshop: God & Science on the Galápagos Islands 3.69 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1965 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 4.20 avg rating — 76 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As a fellow member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Washington had known Jefferson since 1768, and, at age nineteen, James Monroe had crossed the Delaware River with Washington on that already legendary Christmas night in 1776 for the battles that revived the patriot cause.”
― Edward J. Larson, The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789

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“Clarence Darrow," the New York Times proclaimed in its lead story, "bearded the lion of Fundamentalism today, faced William Jennings Bryan and a court room filled with believers of the literal word of the Bible and with a hunch of his shoulders and a thumb in his suspenders defied every belief they hold sacred.”
― Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

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“Virtue, I fear, has, in a great degree, taken its departure from our Land, and the want of disposition to do justice is the source of the national embarrassments,” he concluded.5”
― Edward J. Larson, The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789

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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, General Nonfiction, 1964

14 votes, 25.5%

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson, History, 1998

7 votes, 12.7%

"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power, General Nonfiction, 2003

7 votes, 12.7%

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg, General Nonfiction, 1996

6 votes, 10.9%

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor, History 1996

6 votes, 10.9%

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin, General Nonfiction, 2014

6 votes, 10.9%

Growing Up by Russell Baker, Autobiography, 1983

5 votes, 9.1%

Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward, History, 1982

4 votes, 7.3%

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