Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The forgotten founding father

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

607084945

Responsibility statement

Joshua Kendall

Sub title

Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture

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

Table Of Contents

George Washington's cultural attache: the definer of American identity -- From farmboy to best-selling author : Hartford childhood and Yale manhood -- Spelling the new nation -- traveling salesman -- Part two. 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"

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