The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
2010
924.2 W377ke 2010
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Title
The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
Published
New York : G.P. Putnam's sons, c2010.
Description
xii, 355 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
924.2 W377ke 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)607084945
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-345) and index.
Contents: George Washington's cultural attaché : 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.
L2011M73
Biography of Noah Webster, whose name is synonymous with the dictionary he created.
Contents: George Washington's cultural attaché : 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.
L2011M73
Biography of Noah Webster, whose name is synonymous with the dictionary he created.
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