One of the original contributors to McSweeny's, for 10 points, name this social observer and author of Assassination Vacation.
This author's latest work examines such sermons as John Cotton's "God's Promise to his Plantation" as well as John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity" to seek out the source of American exceptionalism. On the Board of Directors for 826NYC, this author, in addition to writing The Wordy Shipmates, describes an obsession with Frank Sinatra's death in "Ixnay on My Way," found in this author's essay collection, Take the Cannoli. An entire 1998 episode of This American Life follows this journalist and her twin sister's journey along the Trail of Tears. The twin sister of Amy, in one work, she describes her ambivalent relationship to American history and citizenship in The Partly-Cloudy Patriot. One of the original contributors to McSweeny's, for 10 points, name this social observer and author of Assassination Vacation.
This author's latest work examines such sermons as John Cotton's "God's Promise to his Plantation" as well as John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity" to seek out the source of American exceptionalism.
Sarah {Vowell}