Sarah Vowell's Writing

Sarah Vowell is a historian and a comedian. Even before reading this book I saw her when she was the history corespondent on The Daily Show and a voice actor in The Incredibles. her writing style is one of sarcasm and irony, with makes her style great. I find passages like the one on page 26 where she tells about how the founding fathers thought that our foreign policy should be isolationist as opposed to what it is currently. It comes full circle when she says that Ron Paul brought up that you are un amerian according to the founding fathers if you supported the Iraq war. the irony showed up when you find thatthe other canidates hold the founding fathers and their belifs in such high regaurd when they were in support of the Iraq war. Another passage that I liked was when we tell ourselves that god says we are the best, that was passed down from the Puritans, but what we have forgotten is that when we mess up (Abu Garaib) we will feel gods wrath. After we feel his wrath we will no longer be his favorite and we will not be a city upon a hill or a shining example to the world. Sarah Vowell is one of the few authors that I find to be extremely eloquent and haliarious at the same time, she is a joy to read.