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Wordy Shipmates starts with John Winthrop coming over on the ship. Winthrop, for good or ill, will be a presence in Massachusetts Bay, being several times elected governor. She highlights his statement of a "city on a hill". It rather ends with the Anne Hutchinson affair. Winthrop does not come off well in that. But then even his biographer Edmund Morgan damms him with faint praise over that mess.
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We found 25 used copies, 0 new copies, and 3 collectible copies of this book. (Show all copies of ISBN 9780684867977)
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Wordy Shipmates starts with John Winthrop coming over on the ship. Winthrop, for good or ill, will be a presence in Massachusetts Bay, being several times elected governor. She highlights his statement of a "city on a hill". It rather ends with the Anne Hutchinson affair. Winthrop does not come off well in that. But then even his biographer Edmund Morgan damms him with faint praise over that mess.
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Radio on A Listener's Diary Sarah Vowell
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Riverhead, 2008. Hard Cover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. First edition. First printing. Signed by Sarah Vowell on the title page. Sarah Vowells exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrops "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...
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Vowell, a National Public Radio personality and acclaimed author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot , adds an unforgettable chapter to the annals of American history with Assassination Vacation. Embarking on a very peculiar journey, she travels around the country on a tour of sites connected with the assassinations of presidents Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley. It's a road trip of disparate destinations, including Key West, Washington, D.C., and Alaska. In many cases, the murder scenes...
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As a series of impressions and reflections regarding contemporary American culture, and as an extended meditation on both our media and our society, this keenly focused book is as insightful as it is refreshing.
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Sarah Vowell, a contributing editor to "This American Life," on National Public Radio, knows that she's not a fair-weather patriot -- at least not the kind Thomas Paine disparaged in the first installment of the "American Crisis" papers, which was written in the fall of 1776, when Washington's troops were retreating. But she can't get behind the idea of citizenship as sing-along that has been prevalent since September 11th. The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Simon & Schuster), her latest book, is a collection...
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The Wordy Shipmates, Vowell, Sarah: Biography & Memoirs
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Assassination Vacation" and "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities.
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From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting...
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We found 11 used copies, 0 new copies, and 2 collectible copies of this book. (Show all copies of ISBN 9780743260039)
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Wordy Shipmates starts with John Winthrop coming over on the ship. Winthrop, for good or ill, will be a presence in Massachusetts Bay, being several times elected governor. She highlights his statement of a "city on a hill". It rather ends with the Anne Hutchinson affair. Winthrop does not come off well in that. But then even his biographer Edmund Morgan damms him with faint praise over that mess.
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From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting...
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Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She searches the streets of Hoboken for traces of the town's favorite son, Frank Sinatra. She goes under cover of heavy makeup in an investigation of goth culture, blasts cannonballs into a hillside on a father-daughter outing, and maps her family's haunted history...
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The principle for this book is simple: for a year the radio becomes the conduit for a young woman's diary. It shows itself to be a kind of conscience wallpaper, a nervous background noise. With a radio in every home, car, office building, mall space and waiting room, we are surrounded by its many voices, "Radio On" examines these voices, making them "truly" audible, clarifying and refining until we truly understand that democracy is alive and well in America--at least on the radio.
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell (Paperback)
Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's "This American Life" -- ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? Why is a bad life in sunny California...
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To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that meansa 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...
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