Sarah Vowell, New York Times bestselling author and contributing editor for NPR's This American Life, presents an examination of the Puritans as she travels through America's past and seventeenth century New England. In The Wordy Shipmates, Vowell studies the Puritan effect, focusing especially on John Winthrop and Reverend John Cotton, the leading religious and civic figures of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as well as it two most famous exiles, Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.

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