The Forgotten Founding Father
Subtitle: Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2012.
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780425245453
Table of contents: title: Prologue : George Washington's cultural attaché : the definer of American identity; title: Part one : From farmboy to best-selling author.; title: Hartford childhood and Yale manhood; title: Spelling the new nation; title: Traveling salesman; title: Part two : Founding father.; title: Counting his way across America; title: Courtship at the Constitutional Convention; title: Marriage and a turn away from words; title: Editor of New York City's first daily; title: Part three : Lexicographer.; title: Setting his sights on Johnson and Johnson Jr.; title: Paterfamilias; title: A lost decade; title: The walking dictionary; title: "More fleshy than ever before"; title: Epilogue : Webster's after Webster : the director of defining