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100	1		_aKendall, Joshua C., _d1960-
245	1	4	_aThe forgotten founding father : _bNoah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture / _cJoshua Kendall.
260			_aNew York : _bG.P. Putnam's Sons, _cc2010.
300			_axii, 355 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [338]-345) and index.
505	0		_aGeorge 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.
520			_aFrom 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.
600	1	0	_aWebster, Noah, _d1758-1843.
650		0	_aLexicographers _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aEnglish language _zUnited States _xLexicography.
650		0	_aSocial reformers _zUnited States _vBiography. _94638
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