Engel V. Vitale: Prayer In The Public School

Engel v. Vitale: Prayer in the Public Schools is a book written by Julia C. Loren. Loren’s main purpose for writing this book is to inform us about the history of the Engel v. Vitale trial, an important trial which determined that prayer was not acceptable in the public schools quote as the book says the “In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of its most controversial decisions of the twentieth century.” In this book, Loren was not bias towards either Engel’s or Vitale’s side of the case as she did not appear to be very fond of one particular side and gave information regarding both sides of the case. With that being said, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in history or even the Engel v. Vitale case itself because the author was very straightforward in telling about both sides of the case without leaving anything out. Engel v. Vitale:

Throughout the book, the group of parents’ attempts at going against the Regents Prayer in court was not very successful. The group of parents constantly went to courts, but they also constantly lost their cases in court. Having finally grown tired of losing their cases in numerous courts against the Regents Prayer, Steven Engel, one of the parents against the Regents Prayer, hired a lawyer to take the group’s case to the Supreme Court as the quote “After the New Hyde Park families petitioned the Supreme Court to hear their case, they waited anxiously for news.”