The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
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- ISBN: 9780399156991 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0399156992 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
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xii, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Summary, etc.: | 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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Subject: | Webster, Noah 1758-1843 Lexicographers United States Biography English language United States Lexicography Social reformers United States Biography |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | B WEBSTER (Text) | 36123001469368 | Adult Biography | Available | - |