The Trial of the Century

It's about something else which we'll get into and which has a lot of lessons for what's happening right now in the United States.

My idol Clarence Darrow would be outraged because he cared more about free speech than any other individual right in America.

And it told the story of how in the 1920s, the religious fervor sort of swept the nation and they began banning books in science, particularly evolution.

It was the trial of the century then, and it still is now, Megan.

Trial of the Century in bookstores nationwide and available online.

In Tennessee. Now, there is a book just came out yesterday called Trial of the Century. And it chronicles what happened in the most famous free speech case in America.

What was the most important thing you learned, you yourself, from the research you did for this book?

When you write your books, you make them exciting. History can be exciting if you're a good storyteller.

The climactic moment in the trial is when Clarence Darrow, who's out of options, he knows he's losing. The jury's against him. The judge and ordained minister is against him. And Scopes is about to be convicted.

And in the end, Darrow utterly destroyed Bryan, so much so that a broken man just days later, he lays down for a nap and he never wakes up.