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The Partly Cloudy Patriot

  • The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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    Sarah Vowell
  • Publication Details

    Book, Simon & Schuster, 2002
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      (LOWER LEVEL)  E178.6 .V68 2002         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    In The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell — widely hailed for her inimitable narratives on public radio’s This American Life — ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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    • "In The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty bumpy roads of her own life. In this collection of personal stories Vowell ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? Why is a bad life in sunny California so much worse than a bad life anywhere else? What is it about the Zen of foul shots? And, in the title piece, why must doubt and internal arguments haunt the sleepless nights of the true patriot?"–BOOK JACKET
  • 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
  • ISBN

    • 0743223527
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