She did it again. I gulped down a book about something that (prior to picking up this book) couldn't have interested me less � the Puritan founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Vowell ties these passionate, spiritual, political, blood-thirsty people from our past to today beautifully. I was fascinated to find the basis of separation of church and state came from a passionate preacher. And creepy that he befriended the indians, learned their language and culture, worked hard to convert them to save their souls, and then sold them out as a spy during wartime. Perhaps the book is mainly about that human duality. She includes an amazing quote from a Reagan speech. He was apologizing for the Iran-Contra illegal weapons sales and said 'A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.' I can't imagine a better definition for Stephen Colbert's word 'truthiness'. [return]How is it that I knew nothing about Anne Hutchinson? Talk about a feminist!