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

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Weinberg, Carl R., 1962-
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Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
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Contents
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.
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"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"--
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9781501759314 (epub)
9781501759307 (pdf)
9781501759291 (paperback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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