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This book fills that gap. I am of Catholic descent, and could give two shits whether there is such an entity as God or not.
All Right Reserved. I'll give her credit, she tries pretty hard to make this - the story of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - appeal to a wide audience. Also includes sites with a short overview, synopsis, book report, or summary of Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates.
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While being claimed by Fundamentalists of the Religious Right, Vowell point. There's a good deal of clever wordplay and an engaging, 'gee isn't that strange' sense of humor; and she makes a point of drawing lots of parallels to our present-day social and political idiosyncrasies, some of which are interesting. I'll give her credit, she tries pretty hard to make this - the story of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - appeal to a wide audience.
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It isn't quite the happy Thanksgiving tale promulgated later on by the popular opinion, but a real story of the stubborn, fortitudinous (nice, always wanted to use it in a sentence), well intentioned, oftentimes misguided, striving bunch of individuals who pursued a dream. Sarah Vowell is one of the better prescriptions.
To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means—and what it …
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Depending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc. This is NOT as easy-reading as Sarah Vowell's other books. Vowell is great, unapologetically smart in times of rampant anti intellectualism, opinionated, an astute observer/thinker, funny, a real pleasure to read.
There were times when I had a hard time keeping the narrative thread straight. After this I'm very excited to read.
Refresh and try again. Vowell links recent events in the United States with the Puritan past, often with entertaining results, sometimes with more painful results. This book is a perfect blend of historical essay and pop culture lit. There's no other way to put it. A slog.
In his words, Williams believed that the government of Massachusetts Bay "opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation bwtween the garden of the Church and the wilderness of the world" and he devoted his life to keeping government out of the church--not the church out of government. Although this isn't quite the sort of history I like. See 1 question about The Wordy Shipmates…, Books I Have Every Intention Of Reading This Year.
Her passion for the subject is apparent, but I could have used more conventional historica.
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Publisher's Summary. Williams believed that governments should allow all forms of religions, including in his words "the most paganist, Jewish, Turkish (Islamic) or Antichristian consciences."
I have also come to the personal conclusion that these original religious pilgrims are the source of Americans' obsession with everything in life being a drama. But that fact remains that I found it boring. There was a lot of meandering prose, detours, and tangents, and honestly, I began to doubt my love for Sarah Vowell: Don't her books always seem just a wee bit better in retrospect than they do when I'm actually reading them, I wondered? She also points out that one of the problems that the Puritan leaders had with Anne Hutchinson was that her belief that the "the Holy Ghost living inside a believer was dangerously close to a belief in immediate personal revelation." This is a story of pilgrims. By that I mean, it's interesting but meandering, it's humorous but it's dense, it's historical but also modern.
Recommended. The Wordy Shipmates is an admirable effort in bringing the reality of America's early years to the public in a highly readable, entertaining, and informative way.
She works hard to enliven the past and connect the implications to the modern world. It isn't quite the happy Thanksgiving tale promulgated later on by the popular opinion, but a real story of the stubborn, fortitudinous (nice, always wanted to use it in a sentence), well intentioned, oftentimes misguided, striving bunch of individuals who pursued a dream.
This book is a perfect blend of historical essay and pop culture lit. It seems like she's telling a bunch of loosely connected stories about Puritans merely to set up a string of one-liners.
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There's a good deal of clever wordplay and an engaging, 'gee isn't that strange' sense of humor; and she makes a point of drawing lots of parallels to our present-day social and political idiosyncrasies, some of which are interesting. The emphasis is on describing the writing style and quality, with a short plot synopsis included. This would, to an equally large degree, explain my total uninterest in Puritans; they didn't eradicate my ancestors, and they had no part in shaping my weltanschaung. Much of American attitudes and culture were all founded upon the principles that governed the lives of those original founders.
It came pretty early on in this one, too. We found no such entries for this book title. This is precisely how I like my history, told by a clever erudite with a great sense of humor. This book took a while to get going for me.
People who like belt buckles on things other than their belts. I chose to read this book immediately after reading, Nothing says beach read like a book about New England’s Puritans and the colonies they founded.
I only wish she's turn her considerable awesomeness to other places and other (older) times. She points out that although the King James Bible was available to them, it was the Geneva Bible that the Puritans brought with them to the New World.
I think the most provocative thing about this book is how puritan culture still permeates through-out the American Psyche to this day. A summary is balanced with details on the book's writing style and themes. We don’t have a problem yet Sarah. The Wordy Shipmates is the fifth book by the American social commentator Sarah Vowell, published in October 2008.
If there is a The Wordy Shipmates SparkNotes, Shmoop guide, or Cliff Notes, you can find a link to each study guide below. 1) This is what Sarah Vowell begins with in her book "The Wordy Shipmates" and I have to agree with her. Sarah Vowell is of Cherokee descent, and was raised in a Pentecostal community. Reviews in the NY Times tend to be lengthy and literary, tracking the book's creation through the development and writing process, with a look at what makes both book and author unique. In The Wordy Shipmates Ms. Vowell half, or maybe three-quarters, succeeds with the transformation from memoirist with a history bend to a historian who occasionally injects her own story into the text.
Vowell also reminds the reader that Perry Miller, a 20th century Harvard professor, argued that "having respect for the Puritans is not the same thing as beieving in them.
Much of American attitudes and culture were all founded upon the principles that governed the lives of those original founders. I have a disease. In The Wordy Shipmates Ms. Vowell half, or maybe three-quarters, succeeds with the transformation from memoirist with a history bend to a historian who occasionally injects her own story into the text.
Vowell makes it interesting, though, though well thought out connections to European history of the time and current US politics, particularly the latter, since the pilgrim past is never really dead, but instead continues to make appearances as if it was once interred in the ancient indian burial...oh wait, it was.
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