- Politics and government, New England, Religion and politics, Nonfiction
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.
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- Author
- Sarah Vowell
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Thorndike Press, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781436290623
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