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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second. Publisher: OED Unformation Sciences, Inc., 1990, V.Good, HB, ISBN: 0-89435-300-4. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. [16], 254, [2] pages. Map. Illustration. Most Useful Primary Sources. Note on Language. DJ has autographed copy sticker on front. Signed by author on title page. DJ has edge tears at top front. Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. Vowell has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. She was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International from 1996 to 2008, where she produced numerous commentaries and documentaries and toured the country in many of the program's live shows. She was also the voice of Violet in the animated film The Incredibles and will reprise her role in its sequel. Vowell is a New York Times bestselling author[5] of seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. Vowell's book, The Wordy Shipmates, analyzes the settlement of the New England Puritans in America and their contributions to American history. 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. Jeffrey L. Ward (Map) and Marcel Dzama (Illustrati (illustrator).…