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"Webster" has long been synonymous with correct spelling and authoritative definitions among English-speaking people. Yet little is known about the author of America's first dictionary. Based on primary sources, The Long Journey of Noah Webster sharply challenges all previous biographies of Webster, and offers a strikingly different interpretation of his life and work.
5) Noah Webster
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In this new biography, author John Morgan paints a striking portrait of a great patriot, a man possessed with the idea of strengthening America through a unified American language. Impressed by the vitality and potential of language, Webster was alarmed by the fact that in many Old World countries dialects had developed which were so different that people of one region could barely understand those of another. Webster's speller, and later his dictionary,...
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This biography restores Webster's monumental legacy as a teacher, legislator, philosopher, lawyer, crusading editor, and one of history's most profoundly influential lexicographers. In the first major biography of Noah Webster in over sixty years, author Harlow Unger creates an intriguing portrait of the United States as an energetic and confident young nation, even when independence was fragile and the future unclear. Enjoying complete access to...
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Micklethwait, a London attorney, profiles the Yankee lexicographer who is credited with first distinguishing between British and American spellings and creating the first American dictionary. He describes Webster's (1758-1843) major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as a schoolteacher, copyright champion and itinerant lecturer; and examines his legacy. He appends sample pages of the dictionaries. Annotation...
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