A nation defined
Subtitle: Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture
By: Joshua Kendall.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780399156724
Subjects: Webster, Noah, -- 1758-1843; Webster, Noah, -- 1758-1843 -- Influence; Webster, Noah, -- 1758-1843; Lexicographers -- United States -- Biography; English language -- United States -- Lexicography -- History; Nationalism -- United States -- History; Language and culture -- United States -- History; United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an an American culture
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Hartford childhood and Yale manhood; title: Spelling the new nation; title: Traveling salesman; title: Founding father: 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: Lexicographer: Setting his sights on Johnson, and Johnson Jr.; title: Paterfamilias; title: A lost decade; title: The walking dictionary; title: "More fleshy than ever before".