The Wordy Shipmates is rich with historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America’s celebrated voices. Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World. What is the lesson of the Pequot War? Why, don’t fire one of your military’s embarrassingly few Arabic translators just because he’s gay, of course.As in all Vowell’s bestselling books, this exploration of America’s past is both poignant and entertaining. See all books authored by Sarah Vowell, including Assassination Vacation, and Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, and more on. What was the Puritans’ pet name for the Pope? The Great Whore of Babylon. What does it take to get that jezebel Anne Hutchinson to shut up? A hatchet. How come Henry Vane the Younger, who argued against beheading the English king, was himself beheaded for helping behead said king? Good question. New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy Shipmates.Even today, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means - and what it should mean.

From the British Library to the Mohegan Sun casino, from the nation’s first synagogue to a Mayflower waterslide, Vowell studies the Puritan effect and finds their beliefs about church and state more interesting than their buckles-and-corn reputation would suggest.She asks:Was Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop a communitarian, Christlike Christian, or conformity’s tyrannical enforcer? Yes! Was Rhode Island’s architect Roger Williams America’s founding freak or the father of the First Amendment? Same difference. From the New York Times–bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, their deep-rooted idealism, their political and cultural relevance in today’s world, and their myriad oddities.In The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell travels once again through America’s past, this time to seventeenth-century New England. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell - New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy.

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