The Partly Cloudy Patriot [Audiobook] download free by Katherine Streeter
- Listen audiobook: The Partly Cloudy Patriot
- Author: Katherine Streeter
- Release date: 2003/5/12
- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780743243803
- Rating: 8.25 of 10
- Votes: 615
- Review by: Emersyn Coyle
- Review rating: 8.95 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/25
- Duration: 2H30M32S in 256 kbps (39.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, OPUS, FLAC, Apple Lossless, MPEG4, WMA, AC3, MP3 (compression LZ, RAR, TAR.LZO, BZ2, CAB, ZIP, LZO)
- Total pages original book: 197
- Includes a PDF summary of 18 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M15S (3.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From public radio This American Life contributor and self-described 'history nerd' Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? Why is a bad life in sunny California so much worse than a bad life anywhere else? What is it about the Zen of foul shots? And, in the title piece, why must doubt and internal arguments haunt the sleepless nights of the true patriot? Her essays confront a wide range of subjects, themes, icons, and historical moments: Ike, Teddy Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton; Canadian Mounties and German filmmakers; Tom Cruise and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; twins and nerds; the Gettysburg Address, the State of the Union, and George W. Bush's inauguration. The result is a teeming and engrossing book, capturing Vowell's memorable wit and her keen social commentary.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: General, Political Structure & Processes, Popular Culture, History Of The Americas
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.86 USD
- Dimensions: 146x216x13mm
- Weight: 204g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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