Unnerved by ancestral voices

The Spectator | November 25, 2000| | Copyright

TRIALS OF THE MONKEY: AN ACCIDENTAL MEMOIR by Matthew Chapman Duckworth, L14.99, pp. 337

This hugely entertaining book is something of a curiosity. It sets out to tell the story of the Scopes 'Monkey' trial of 1925 (subject of the film Inherit the Wind, in which Spencer Tracy played the great American liberal lawyer Clarence Darrow) and its legacy in latter-day Dayton, Tennessee, and ends up telling the story of the author's life: how a drop-out from a privileged but dysfunctional English family became a highly paid Hollywood scriptwriter living in New York, ...

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