The Resource The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture, Joshua Kendall
The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture, Joshua Kendall
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The item The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture, Joshua Kendall represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Spokane Public Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 355 p.
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780399156991
- Label
- The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
- Title
- The forgotten founding father
- Title remainder
- Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Joshua Kendall
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kendall, Joshua C.
- Dewey number
-
- 423.092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Webster, Noah
- Lexicographers
- English language
- Social reformers
- Label
- The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture, Joshua Kendall
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 355 p.
- Isbn
- 9780399156991
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 2010015254
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- ocn607084945
- 420387
- (OCoLC)607084945
- Label
- The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture, Joshua Kendall
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 355 p.
- Isbn
- 9780399156991
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 2010015254
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- ocn607084945
- 420387
- (OCoLC)607084945
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