Vowell is a New York Times’ bestselling author of five nonfiction books on American history and culture. Vowell received the Music Journalism Award in 1996. in Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. from Montana State University in 1993 in Modern Languages and Literatures and an M.A. She was also the voice of Violet in the animated film The Incredibles and a short documentary, VOWELLET - An Essay by SARAH VOWELL in the "Behind the Scenes" extras of The Incredibles DVD Release. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has authored several books and is a regular contributor to the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International.
Sarah Jane Vowell is an American author, journalist, humorist, and commentator. In examining the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn, she finds America again, warts and all. With Vowell's trademark wry insights and reporting, she lights out to discover the odd, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state. Sugar barons, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaii-born president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade. An incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband.
Whalers who will fire cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their god-given right to whores. From the arrival of the New England missionaries in 1820, who came to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'etat led by the missionaries' sons in 1893, overthrowing the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling if often appalling or tragic characters.
Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as crucial to our nation's identity, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded Cuba, and then the Philippines, becoming a meddling, self-serving, militaristic international superpower practically overnight. Many think of 1776 as the most defining year of American history, the year we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self-government.
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