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A.A. Knopf, 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Fair dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket, "The author warns that if the Fundamentalists gain control of the state and national governments as they are trying to do, we shall be headed for a new Dark Age," these words, written in 1937, ring with truth in the 21st century, history has shown time and time again that all we need to do to lose our freedom is to abandon the honest search for truth that science seeks and put our trust in the hatred, intolerance and deceit that masquerades as a belief in a loving god among fanatical evangelicals of any faith, the book is in excellent condition, the colored top outer page-edge has several lightened areas to the surface and is the only remarkable book flaw, the binding is tight and clean and the contents are fine, the jacket has heavy wear caused by the voracious book-loving insect known as the siverfish, they are gone but the damage remains: edge and surface-wear is present and the spine is detached… Read More

New York & London:: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927., 1927. 8vo. xiv, 415 pp. Appendix, index; marginal pencil notes on index, browning between page 100-101 due to inserted newspaper. Yellow-stamped red cloth, spine faded. Good +. "The author [MAYNARD SHIPLEY],. . .traces here briefly and in a most interesting manner the fundamentalist attacks on evolution and modernism. Through Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina and through other Southern states, he proceeds to the shame of Tennessee, quoting from the press items which reveal that there is hardly a state in the United States that has not an unscientific fundamentalist group. The cases of such fundamentalists as Straton and Bryan are quite fully revealed, as well as the enlightened dictums of Fosdick and Jordan. For anyone interested in the trend of American thought, this is a highly stimulating volume." –JAMA, The War on Modern Science. A Short History of the Fundamentalist Attacks on Evolution and Modernism. 1927; 89 (14):1173. Other (4 pages) of… Read More