Sarah Vowell will be at the Colonial Theatre in April, 2010. I already have my front row seat. She’s described as an “armchair historian” and “social observer”. She’s a regular commentator on NPR. Her latest book is “The Wordy Shipmates” which dispels many of the accepted myths of our Puritan forefathers. I found most fascinating her “Assassination Vacation” in which she travels the US with her twin sister – Sarah herself does not drive – to research the backgrounds leading up to the first three presidential assassinations: Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. The individual coincidences she uncovers are quite jaw-dropping. I kept thinking, “I didn’t know that…” of her in-depth research. A new look at history.
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