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Oct 7, 2008 · The Wordy Shipmates is an excellent, focused examination of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans. Vowell’s commentary is at turns funny and sarcastic and personal and she makes it clear why their history still impacts—and is important to—our present.
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Oct 6, 2009 · The Wordy Shipmates tells the story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century. These Puritans arrived ten years after the Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony to the south. They intended to create a shining "city on a hill," a phrase that has reverberated through American history to this day.
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- Sarah Vowell
A humorous but seriously critical examination of the Puritan emigrants that traveled with the flagship Arbella from England to Massachusetts in 1630, the book revisits leading Puritan figures and the colonial events and ideologies they created while trying to establish the “city upon a hill” that defined their Christian mission in, what was to t...
The Wordy Shipmates is the fifth book by the American social commentator Sarah Vowell, published in October 2008. The book chronicles the 17th and 18th century history of Puritan colonists in Massachusetts, United States.
Oct 6, 2008 · The Wordy Shipmates. Kindle Edition. From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, 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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Oct 7, 2008 · 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.
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From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, 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.”
