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Many in the audience were fans of Vowell’s other historical accounts as well as her radio work, but, as Boston native John Kelly said, “‘The Wordy Shipmates?? has a definite local flavor...
...irony. What makes Vowell’s brand of humor impervious to any shifts is the fact that her best work—“The Partly Cloudy Patriot,” “Assassination Vacation” and her latest, “The Wordy Shipmates??—have dealt in her rich knowledge and extensive research of American history.“Assassination Vacation,” her last book, followed the arc of Vowell’s pilgrimage to the sites of three of America’s four presidential assassinations?...
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