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Inherit the Wind

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, 1955

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Rory at the book sale: Letters to a Young Poet. Evidence card from Gilmore Girls: Letters to a Young Poet, Inherit the WindGet credit for sleuthing this sceneDrop the frame
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Gilmore Girls · S2 E15 · Rory Gilmore · The Stars Hollow book fundraiser

Rory at the book sale: Letters to a Young Poet

Lawrence and Lee's 1955 play fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes trial, and they wrote it with McCarthyism in mind. Taylor Doose would have chaired the prosecution.

Sources: Rory's Books from the Buy a Book Fundraiser, The Annotated Gilmore Girls · The Real Rory Book List: Season Two, Oy With the Poodles

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