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The partly cloudy patriot / Sarah Vowell.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 178.6 .V68 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vowell, Sarah, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vowell, Sarah, 1969---Anecdotes.
- Vowell, Sarah.
- United States--History--Anecdotes.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--Anecdotes.
- United States--Description and travel--Anecdotes.
- National characteristics, American--Anecdotes.
- National characteristics, American.
- Vowell, Sarah, 1969-.
- Politics and government.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 197 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2003, ©2002.
- Summary:
- A collection of personal stories in which Sarah Vowell examines various aspects of her own life while chronicling the experiences she had while traveling throughout the United States.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Includes an essay on Gettysburg: "What He Said Ther
- ISBN:
- 0743243803
- 9780743243803
- OCLC:
- 53832284
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