Inherit the Wind by
Jerome Lawrence and
Robert E. Lee, is a dramatized version of the
famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial of 1925. The
plot is that a town passes a law, forbidding teaching anything that goes against what is said in the
Book of Genesis. The law was designed to attack the teaching of
Darwinism. The big contenders are
Mathew Harrison Brady, a
christian speaker, and
Henry Drummond a very
libertarian defense attorney. A very good
read.
Also later turned into a
movie starring
Spencer Tracy and
Fredric March;
directed by
Stanley Kramer. Luckily, the movie stayed very close to the original
play.