Sarah Vowell

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Sarah Vowell is an author and humorist whose newest book, Unfriendly Fishes, is about the annexation of Hawaii.

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0:16.9	I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from My House in Los Angeles.
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0:23.4	and PRI, public radio, international.
0:31.0	It's The Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:34.0	My guest on the program, at least in public radio circles,
0:38.0	barely needs any introduction at all.
0:40.0	It's Sarah Val.
0:42.0	She's made a career for herself
0:44.0	as a very particular kind of popular history.
0:48.0	She doesn't so much write as a historian
0:51.0	presenting what Werner Herzog recently called to me
0:54.0	the Accountant's Truth.
0:56.0	Rather, she writes from her own perspective,
0:59.0	a perspective that is very contemporary
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