Sarah Vowell?s special brand of armchair history makes the bizarre and esoteric fascinatingly relevant and fun. * 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. * Was Rhode Island?s architect, Roger Williams, America?s founding freak or the father of the First Amendment? Same difference. * Was Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop a communitarian, a Christlike Christian, or conformity?s tyrannical enforcer? Answer: Yes!
Their story is filled with pamphlet feuds, witty courtroom dramas, and bloody vengeance. The people she finds are highly literate, deeply principled, and surprisingly feisty.
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. To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means? and what it should mean. 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.?
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