![]() Vowell’s eponymous shipmates are the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 – 10 years after the Mayflower Pilgrims settled Plymouth. ![]() In her new book, The Wordy Shipmates, one of her more outrageous parallels compares the Pequot war, in which 700 Indians were murdered in Mystic Fort, with a frustrated skateboarder’s “destructive tantrum.” Vowell is a master of the unexpected angle or pop-culture connection used to confer fresh relevance on often dowdy subjects. Her last book, “Assassination Vacation,” chronicled a quirky road trip stalking the murder sites – now tourist pit stops – of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. ![]() Hers is emphatically not the history taught in high school – often a target of her sarcastic wit. ![]() Sarah Vowell, a popular contributor to public radio’s “ This American Life,” is an American-history buff with a self-proclaimed predilection for Puritan New England, the Civil War, and bloodbaths. ![]()
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