Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started New York's first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton's New York Post. His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important, Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively American culture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States of America were anything but unified-and his dictionary of American English is a testament to that.
Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started New York's first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton's New York Post. His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important, Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively American culture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States of America were anything but unified-and his dictionary of American English is a testament to that.
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture
416The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture
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ISBN-13: | 9780425245453 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 03/06/2012 |
Pages: | 416 |
Sales rank: | 698,771 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |