Noah Webster & his words

Author

Jeri Ferris

Call Number

• J 921 WEBSTER (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Boston, MI : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Physical Description

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.

Summary

A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his twenty-year effort to write the all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old.