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A nation defined Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
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1 online resource. - Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010.
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| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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". |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Webster, Noah 1758-1843 Lexicographers United States Biography English language United States Lexicography Social reformers United States Biography |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
