Noah Webster
the life and times of an American patriot
by Unger, Harlow G.
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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 Webster's papers, letters, essays, and diaries, Unger explores with unique clarity and depth the role his subject played as a close ally of George Washington, John Adams, and John Jay and as a key player in the heated battle to ratify the Constitution.
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Biography, Lexicographers, Social reformers, Educators, Webster, noah, 1758-1843, Philologists, United states, biographyPeople
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Noah Webster: the life and times of an American patriot
1998, John Wiley & Sons
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0471184551 9780471184553
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-373) and index.
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Noah Webster was one of the towering intellects of his generation. Long before he even thought about writing a dictionary, Webster had assumed a place among the nation's founding fathers as the father of cultural independence, whose words reached American minds in every home and classroom and transformed the nation from a Babel of conflicting tongues -- English, Dutch, French, German, and innumerable others -- into the first nation on earth where generations of diverse people would speak and think in one language as one people. - Prologue.
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