Book
The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
Publication Information
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2010.
Physical Description
xii, 355 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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 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".