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The Wordy Shipmates (2008)

af Sarah Vowell

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From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Assassination Vacation" comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities. To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but author 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.--From publisher description.… (mere)
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What happened to the old Vowell charm? I wanted to like this, but it was dull and hard to follow. The only parts I perked up for were the ones I'd already heard her read on the radio.

On the plus side, I was very intrigued by Roger Williams, who believed in the rights of Native Americans and the separation of church and state before it was popular. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
I enjoyed it but it wasn't anywhere as good as her previous books. Missing lot of her off beat humor that I have come to love. ( )
  cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 |
I love sarah vowel, but this book didn't have the scope I expected. ( )
  nogomu | Oct 19, 2023 |
Vowel's smart, engaging, funny book [b:Assassination Vacation|422664|Assassination Vacation|Sarah Vowell|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174601492s/422664.jpg|824686](audio) made the miles melt away as I drove to grad classes. I chose this title as a birthday gift when my sister-in-law said a) she loves words and b) history interests her. Seems a perfect match. I'm reading it first just to be sure of what I'm giving. ( )
  rebwaring | Aug 14, 2023 |
Sarah Vowell seems like the kind of author who would be good for the buddy read project for my dad and me -- the trick was finding a book hers neither of us had read already. And since better understanding the legacy of the Civil War and how it still haunts America today was the original motivation for our read-alongs, going back further to investigate our Puritan origins seemed like right on theme.

This was a good pick, and fascinating, especially along "it was ever thus" lines -- just that it seems to be built in to the human condition to argue about doctrine and splinter and faction -- or is that just the legacy we've inherited here in the U.S. from the Puritans and we THINK it is universal?

We spent a lot of our time really trying to wrap our heads around Calvinism and what the motivation is for doing ANYTHING if your salvation/damnation is already predetermined and there is nothing you can do about it?

The back-and-forth shifting in time as various threads of the story are followed and then backtracking to another was a little more bewildering/frustrating in this book than in some of Vowell's others -- where many readers could be expected to have SOME grasp of the timeline to begin with.

Overall a very worthwhile read. ( )
  greeniezona | Aug 1, 2023 |
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Maybe there's something to be said for learning about the pilgrims, after all—especially from an instructor as entertaining as Vowell.
tilføjet af sduff222 | RedigerBitch Magazine, Kelsey Wallace (Mar 28, 2011)
 
As always with Vowell, her commentary is apt and frequently, startlingly
insightful. I would suggest that this book might well be used as
a sort of introductory text to the ideas of the Puritans particularly for
undergraduates. Because she engages so cleverly with popular culture,
it may help provide a successful approach to the dense and highly
intellectualized writing of this group of Puritans. For the nonspecialist
in this period, the book could serve as a reminder of what continues to
be so fascinating about the ideas of the New England Puritans of the
seventeenth century and the impact their thought continues to have in
popular discourse.
tilføjet af sduff222 | RedigerReviews in Religion and Theology, Mary Coleman (Sep 1, 2009)
 
Sarah Vowell is a problem. She’s a problem like Sarah Palin, Cyndi Lauper and Kathy Griffin. She’s annoying. Or, really, she’s double-annoying, because she styles herself as annoying — provocative-annoying — and if you become annoyed by her you seem to be conceding the point. She’s gotten to you.

Take “The Wordy Shipmates,” her fifth book. Vowell has integrated her sarcasm, flat indie-girl affect and kitsch worship — refined in print and on public radio — into a pop history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Known for her adenoid-helium voice, Vowell is a genial talker but an undisciplined writer. This new book mixes jiggers of various weak liquors — paraphrase, topical one-liners, blogger tics — and ends up tasting kind of festive but bad, like Long Island iced tea.
 
Drawing on letters, essays, and sermons, Vowell offers a penetrating look at the tensions between John Winthrop, John Cotton, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and others as they argued about the role of religion in government and everyday life. They saw themselves as God's chosen people, a credo that set the tone for American history and notions of manifest destiny that have led to all manner of imposition on other lands and cultures. But they also vehemently debated separation of church and state and founded Harvard, even as they pondered the destiny of what Winthrop referred to as the "shining city on the hill "A book dense with detail, insight, and humor.
tilføjet af sduff222 | RedigerBooklist, Vanessa Bush (Oct 1, 2008)
 
At times dense, at times silly, at times surpassingly wise.
tilføjet af sduff222 | RedigerKirkus Reviews (Aug 1, 2008)
 

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But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight. . . Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has gone down beneath him. Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out from under the robes of Senators and Judges. Delight, —top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

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I'm always disappointed when I see the word "Puritan" tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to hell.
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From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Assassination Vacation" comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities. To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but author 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.--From publisher description.

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