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The Wordy Shipmates

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In this New York Times bestseller, the creator of Assassination Vacation “brings the [Puritan] era wickedly to life” (Washington Post).

To this present day, The usa views itself as a Puritan nation, but Sarah Vowell investigates what that means-and what it will have to mean. What she discovers is something far different from what their uptight shoebuckles- and-corn reputation might suggest-a highly literate, deeply principled, and surprisingly feisty people, whose story is stuffed with pamphlet feuds, witty courtroom dramas, and bloody vengeance.

Vowell takes us from the brand new-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. All through, The Wordy Shipmates is wealthy in historical fact, humorous insight, and social statement by one in every of The usa’s most celebrated voices.

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