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The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture / Joshua Kendall.

By: Publication details: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010.Description: xii, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780399156991 (hc.)
  • 0399156992 (hc.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 423.092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PE64.W5 K46 2010
Contents:
George Washington's cultural attacheÌ : the definer of American identity -- From farmboy to best-selling author. Hartford childhood and Yale manhood ; Spelling the new nation ; Traveling salesman -- Founding father. Counting his way across America ; Courtship at the Constitutional Convention ; Marriage and a turn away from words ; Editor of New York City's first daily -- Lexicographer. Setting his sights on Johnson and Johnson, Jr. ; Paterfamilias ; A lost decade ; The walking dictionary ; "More fleshy than ever before" -- Webster's after Webster : the director of defining.
Summary: From the author of "The Man Who Made Lists" comes an absorbing biography of Noah Webster, whose name is synonymous with the dictionary he created, but whose life story is not nearly so ubiquitous.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PE64 .W5 K46 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001178184

Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-345) and index.

George Washington's cultural attacheÌ : the definer of American identity -- From farmboy to best-selling author. Hartford childhood and Yale manhood ; Spelling the new nation ; Traveling salesman -- Founding father. Counting his way across America ; Courtship at the Constitutional Convention ; Marriage and a turn away from words ; Editor of New York City's first daily -- Lexicographer. Setting his sights on Johnson and Johnson, Jr. ; Paterfamilias ; A lost decade ; The walking dictionary ; "More fleshy than ever before" -- Webster's after Webster : the director of defining.

From the author of "The Man Who Made Lists" comes an absorbing biography of Noah Webster, whose name is synonymous with the dictionary he created, but whose life story is not nearly so ubiquitous.

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