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Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) [2] is an American historian, [3] author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. She has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture.
Books by American historian, author, journalist, essayist and social commentator Sarah Vowell. Pages in category "Books by Sarah Vowell" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Radio On: A Listener's Diary (1997) is the first book by Sarah Vowell.In the book, she writes about listening to the radio for an entire year, switching between rock stations, talk radio, and NPR. [1]
Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World is a collection of essays by Sarah Vowell, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 2000. In it, she discusses everything from her obsession with The Godfather (the title of the book comes from a line from Godfather caporegime Peter Clemenza), music lessons, and the intersection of Michigan and Wacker in Chicago to her experience retracing her ...
Assassination Vacation is a 2005 book by Sarah Vowell, in which she travels around the United States researching the assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley. [1]
But Ms. Vowell's determination to render history user-friendly often feels reductive and condescending, and her contemporary analogies can be strained." [ 4 ] However, in the New York Times Book Review , Hawaii resident Kaui Hart Hemmings praised the author thus: "Vowell deftly summarizes complex events and significant upheavals, reducing them ...
When folk music giant Woody Guthrie died in 1967, he left behind written lyrics for hundreds of unrecorded songs. Decades later, his daughter Nora began drafting a new generation of musicians to ...
Paolo Villaggio (1932–2017): Italian actor, writer, director, and comedian. [286] Sarah Vowell (born 1969): American author, broadcaster, and voice actor. [287] Joss Whedon (born 1964): American screenwriter and director. [288] Lalla Ward (born 1951): English actress and illustrator. [citation needed]