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

text The forgotten founding father : 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.

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 ... Read more
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xii, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010

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