The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture [ressource électronique]

• Tác giả: Joshua C Kendall
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1101485302
• ISBN-13: 978-1101485309
• ISBN-13: 978-1101486542
• ISBN-10: 0399156992
• ISBN-10: 1101486546
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 423.092 Dictionaries of standard English
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010
• Mô tả vật lý: xii, 355 p. : , ill. ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Ngôn ngữ
• ID: 91105
• Chủ đề: 1. English language--Lexicography--United States; 2. Lexicographers--United States; 3. Social reformers--United States; 4. Webster, Noah,; 5. Biographie

Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-345) and index.

Tóm tắt

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.