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Author Kendall, Joshua C., 1960-

Title The forgotten founding father [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture / Joshua Kendall.

Publication Info. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010.
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Description 1 online resource.
Note Includes index.
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".
Subject Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.
Lexicographers -- United States -- Biography.
English language -- United States -- Lexicography.
Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Genre Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kendall, Joshua C., 1960- Nation defined. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010 9780399156991 (DLC) 2010015254 (OCoLC)607084945
ISBN 9781101486542 (electronic bk.)
1101486546 (electronic bk.)
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