The wordy shipmates by sarah vowell5/13/2023 In The Wordy Shipmates, Vowell revisits the first decade of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where a crew of nonseparatist Puritans who have left Mother England (without letting go of her apron strings) are striving to build a commonwealth of Christian ideals. Leave it to this self-proclaimed history nerd – she who turned the macabre topic of presidential murders into a comic travelog with a brainy kick – to redeem the Puritans from their stereotype of starchy piety and reveal them for the people they truly were: literary, thoughtful, courageous, and beset internally by an almost Shakespearean conflict between freedom and fidelity to spiritual doctrine. That may change with Sarah Vowell handling their PR. We regard those faith-based early colonists as being so dour, so prudish, as such a kaffeeklatsch of killjoys, that who could possibly get pumped up over a tome about them except for, well, other Puritans? Quick show of hands: Who's all hot to read a new book about the Puritans?
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