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Hunting Shirts
Throughout her book, Vowell uses the image of freezing Patriot soldiers in hunting shirts to symbolize the Americans’ persistence against impossible odds during the Revolutionary War. Whereas the British had the resources to buy warm…
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Fields and Hills
In Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, rolling fields and hills represent how the United States idealizes its complicated, often violent past. As Vowell retraces Lafayette’s steps through the peaceful hills that were…
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Freedom Fries
In the mid-2000s, when France refused to join the United States in its invasion of Iraq, a wave of anti-French sentiment led some American senators to cry that French fries should be renamed “freedom fries.”…
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