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Hardcover. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 256 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated From Puritans to the heathens-Sarah Vowell takes on Hawaii in this New York Times bestseller.Of all the COUNTRIES the United States Invaded or colonized in 1898. Sarah Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing. From the arrival of the New England missionaries in 1820. who came to Christianize the local heathens. to the coup d'tat led by the missionaries' sons in 1893. overthrowing the Hawaiian queen. the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling. if often appalling or tragic. characters. Whalers who fire cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their god-given right to whores; an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her other-husband; sugar barons. con men. Theodore Roosevelt. and the last Hawaiian queen. a so...
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"Sarah Vowell is an intellectual melting pot. Her cleverness is gorgeously American..." - Los Angeles Times
"Its scintillating cast includes dour missionaries, genital-worshiping heathens, Teddy Roosevelt, incestuous royalty, a nutty Mormon, a much-too--merry monarch, President Obama, sugar barons, an imprisoned queen and Vowell herself, in a kind of 50th-state variety show. It's a fun book...[a] playful, provocative, stand-up approach to history."--The New York Times Book Review "As entertaining and personable as it is informative."--Washington Post "Sarah Vowell is for my money, the best essayist/radio commentator/sit-down comic and pointy headed history geek in the business."--Seattle TimesAbout the Author
Sarah Vowell is the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, Assassination Vacation,The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Take the Cannoli, and Radio On. A contributing editor for public radio’s "This American Life", she lives in New York City.
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- PublisherRiverhead Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1594487871
- ISBN 13 9781594487873
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages238
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