The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical PerspectivesFew issues besides evolution have so strained Americans' professed tradition of tolerance. Few historians besides Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson have so perceptively chronicled evolution's divisive presence on the American scene. This slim volume reviews the key aspects, current and historical, of the creation evolution debate in the United States. Larson discusses such topics as the transatlantic response to Darwinism, the American