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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780743243803 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Her essays confront a wide range of subjects, themes, icons, and historical moments: Ike, Teddy Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton; Canadian Mounties and German filmmakers; Tom Cruise and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; twins and nerds; the Gettysburg Address, the State of the Union, and George W. Bush's inauguration.
The result is a teeming and engrossing book, capturing Vowell's memorable wit and her keen social commentary.
Review:
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Even though her pieces make us laugh about every fourth line, we feel as if there's something more significant at work....A writer of fierce observational powers who wears her intelligence and wit as comfortably as an old pair of pajamas.
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Synopsis:
About the Author
Table of Contents
What He Said There
The First Thanksgiving
Ike Was a Handsome Man
God Will Give You Blood to Drink in a Souvenir Shot Glass
The New German Cinema
Democracy and Things Like That
Pop-A-Shot
California as an Island
Dear Dead Congressman
The Nerd Voice
Rosa Parks, C'est Moi
Tom Cruise Makes Me Nervous
Underground Lunchroom
Wonder Twins
Cowboys v. Mounties
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
State of the Union
Tom Landry, Existentialist, Dead at 75
The Strenuous Life
Acknowledgments
What Our Readers Are Saying
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crowyhead, October 31, 2007 (view all comments by crowyhead)
Witty musings on politics, history, and patriotism from This American Life darling Sarah Vowell. Sarah Vowell is the closest to a female David Sedaris I've found thus far; it's as though someone took David Sedaris's self-deprecating wit, mixed it with Eddie Izzard's knowledge of history, and then set the combination loose on your average band geek. Or something. I love Sarah Vowell's extreme nerdiness, and this was a very enjoyable book.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780743243803
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Simon and Schuster
- Author:
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- United States - General
- Subject:
- Americana
- Subject:
- National characteristics, american
- Subject:
- Popular Culture - General
- Subject:
- General Current Events
- Subject:
- General Literary Criticism & Collections
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Description:
- B102
- Publication Date:
- October 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- YES
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 8.56x5.56x.64 in. .47 lbs.
