Noah Webster : man of many words
- Title
- Noah Webster : man of many words / Catherine Reef.
- Published by
- Boston : Clarion Books, 2015.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 211 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm
- Summary
- "Noah Webster may be best remembered the enormous and ambitious task of writing his famous dictionary, but for him, this accomplishment was a means to an end. His true goal was to streamline the language spoken in our newly formed country so that it could be used as a force to bring people together and be a source of national pride. Though people laughed at his ideas, Webster never doubted himself. In the end, his so-called foolish notions achieved just what he had hoped. Here, in the only account of Noah Webster for teens, the seasoned biographer Catherine Reef guides us through Webster's remarkable life, from boyhood on a Connecticut farm through the fight for American independence to his days as a writer and political activist who greatly influenced our Founding Fathers and the direction of the young United States"--
- "A biography on Noah Webster, a controversial political activist, the primary shaper of the American language, and author of the Blue-Backed Spellers and the famous dictionary that bears his name. Illustrated with black-and-white archival images"--
- Subject
- Call number
- JFF 16-1603
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Author
- Reef, Catherine.
- Title
- Noah Webster : man of many words / Catherine Reef.
- Publisher
- Boston : Clarion Books, 2015.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- LCCN
- 2014027803
- ISBN
- 9780544129832 (hardback)
- 0544129830 (hardback)
- Research call number
- JFF 16-1603