During all the excitement surrounding the Scopes "Monkey" Trial in July 1925, public attention was focused on Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Little notice was taken of the defendant, John T.Scopes. The mild-mannered science teacher preferred it that way. Although he had been willing to be the defendant in a case that challenged the Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution, Scopes had not anticipated the huge amount of publicity his trial would generate. Since graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1923, Scopes had been teaching physics and coaching the football team at Dayton High School in Tennessee. During the spring 1925 term, when he gave the lecture on evolution for which he was arrested, he was also substituting for the regular biology teacher, who was on a leave of absence. Local school officials, never directly disciplined him for his lecture, and...