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"The Wordy Shipmates" is "New York Times"?bestselling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the ...Show synopsis"The Wordy Shipmates" is "New York Times"?bestselling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop's ?city upon a hill a shining example, a ?city that cannot be hid.? To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means? and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation? What Vowell discovers is something far different from what their uptight shoe-buckles-and- corn reputation might suggest. The people she finds are highly literate, deeply principled, and surprisingly feisty. Their story is filled with pamphlet feuds, witty courtroom dramas, and bloody vengeance. Along the way she asks: * Was Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop a communitarian, a Christlike Christian, or conformity's tyrannical enforcer? "Answer: Yes!" * Was Rhode Island's architect, Roger Williams, America's founding freak or the father of the First Amendment? "Same difference." * What does it take to get that jezebel Anne Hutchinson to shut up? "A hatchet." * What was the Puritans? pet name for the Pope? "The Great Whore of Babylon." Sarah Vowell's special brand of armchair history makes the bizarre and esoteric fascinatingly relevant and fun. She takes us from the modern-day reenactment of an Indian massacre to the Mohegan Sun casino, from old-timey Puritan poetry, where ?righteousness? is rhymed with ?wilderness, ? to a Mayflower-themed waterslide. Throughout, "The Wordy Shipmates" is rich in historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America's most celebrated voices. Thou shalt enjoy it.Hide synopsis
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Sarah Vowell does a wonderful job of defining the differences between the Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
I learned a lot and enjoyed her witty insights.
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This book, recommended to me, proved a sore disappointment. The author's "history" of the Puritan adventure is merely a ruse to proclaim her own political beliefs and to attack traditional American icons. As to her research, I question it. Since her reading of modern events is dishonest and scewed ...
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Sarah Vowell has made what was for me an obscure part of history fascinating. She has obviously done a great deal of research about the Puritans and Pilgrims, where they came from, what motivated them, their impressions of the New World and the impressions they made on the New World, and their ...
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In her fifth book so far, "A Wordy Shipmate," Sarah Vowell seems to be going more and more out on the limb of edgy (inside edge, as in just barely professional at times; not the outside/frontier edge) writing. I sort of wish I hadn't caught her on television, for I hear her high-register voice and see ...
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