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Red Dynamite : Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America /

"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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Main Author: Weinberg, Carl R., 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Anti-communist movements.
Science / Life Sciences / Evolution.
Religion / History.
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-communism & Socialism.
Anticommunisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Anticommunisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Evolution (Biology) > Political aspects > United States.
Evolution (Biology) > Study and teaching > Political aspects > United States.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 21st century.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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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