I returned five books this week. Among them, the clear-cut winner, Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates. Never have Puritans been so much fun.
Ms. Vowell takes a slightly irreverent, vaguely unorthodox look at the oft-quoted, usually mis-represented Puritans of New England in the mid-1600s. From the "city on a hill" of John Winthrop to the Mayflower water slide in Plymouth, she covers the formative years of New England and looks at what went wrong and what went right. Fun history. For real.
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