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Vowell is a New York Times’ bestselling author of six 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. Vowell was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma and moved to Bozeman, Montana with her family when she was 11. She was also the voice of Violet in the animated film The Incredibles.

Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written six nonfiction books on American history and culture, and was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International from 1996–2008, where she produced numerous commentaries and documentaries and toured the country in many of the program’s live shows. Sarah Jane Vowell is an American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator.

Education-B.A., Montana State University M.A.,.

With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'etat of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade.

In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight.Īmong the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.