The partly cloudy patriot
By: Sarah Vowell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780743243803
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Politics and government; American National characteristics; Description and travel; Anecdotes; Travel; History
Description: A collection of personal stories in which Sarah Vowell examines various aspects of her own life while chronicling the experiences she had while traveling throughout the United States.
Table of contents: title: What he said there; title: The first Thanksgiving; title: Ike was a handsome man; title: God will give you blood to drink in a souvenir shot glass; title: The new German cinema; title: Democracy and things like that; title: Pop-A-Shot; title: California as an island; title: Dear dead congressman; title: The nerd voice; title: Rosa Parks, c'est moi; title: Tom Cruise makes me nervous; title: Underground lunchroom; title: Wonder twins; title: Cowboys v. Mounties; title: The partly cloudy patriot; title: State of the Union; title: Tom Landry, existentialist, dead at 75; title: The strenuous life.