عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PE64.W5 J674 2011
PE64
.
W5
J674
2011
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1101485302
(Number (ISBN
1101486546
(Number (ISBN
9781101485309
(Number (ISBN
9781101486542
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b614882
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The forgotten founding father :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
First Statement of Responsibility
Joshua Kendall.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xii, 355 pages) : illustrations
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of 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 OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English language -- United States -- Lexicography.
Lexicographers -- United States -- Biography.
Webster, Noah, -- 1758-1843.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PE64
.
W5
Book number
J674
2011
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Joshua Kendall.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Joshua C Kendall
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
