The Autobiographies Of Noah Webster
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Author | : Noah Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Comprises Noah Webster's formal autobiography (published here for the first time, according to the publisher), several other of his writings about his life, and an analytical essay by the editor. Webster's comments are wide-ranging about American life and public figures between 1778 and 1843. Annota
Author | : Noah Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Comprises Noah Webster's formal autobiography (published here for the first time, according to the publisher), several other of his writings about his life, and an analytical essay by the editor. Webster's comments are wide-ranging about American life and public figures between 1778 and 1843. Annota
Author | : Isabel Proudfit |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780980156300 |
Author | : Pegi Deitz Shea |
Publisher | : Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1635925142 |
This picture book celebrates one of the most important patriots in post-Revolutionary times -- Noah Webster. Most readers know Noah Webster for his dictionary masterpieces and his promotion of a living "American Language" that embraces words and idioms from all its immigrant peoples. But he was also the driving force behind universal education for all citizens, including slaves, females, and adult learners. Speaker of twenty languages, he developed the new country's curriculum, writing and publishing American literature, American history, and American geography. He published New York City's first daily newspaper. As editor, Webster conducted a study and linked disease with poor sanitation. He created the country's first insurance company, established America's first copyright law, and became America's first best-selling author.
Author | : Horace Elisha Scudder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Author | : Catherine Reef |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0544133447 |
An “excellent” biography of the man behind Webster’s Dictionary and the role he played in American history (School Library Journal, starred review). Noah Webster may be best remembered for the enormous and ambitious task of writing his famous dictionary, but there was much more to his accomplishments. His goal was to streamline the language spoken in a newly formed country so it could be used as a force to bring people together and 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 biography of Noah Webster written for teen readers, we journey 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. “Capably weaves Webster’s biography into the history of America’s early years.” —Booklist “Impeccably researched . . . Provides readers with a glimpse at historical figures such as Thomas Paine, George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
Author | : Jeri Ferris |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547390556 |
An innovative picture-book biography about the man who wrote American history by creating the first dictionary for the United States. Full color.
Author | : David Micklethwait |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2005-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780786421572 |
Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as "a vain ... plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson"--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a "barren desart of philology," the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more "plodding" than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections. The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker. The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as schoolteacher, copyright law champion, and itinerant lecturer; and examines the Webster legacy. An appendix containing title page reproductions from Webster's books, as well as some from his predecessors and competitors, is also included.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Justin Peters |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1476767742 |
Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of information and creative content online. He committed suicide in 2013 after being indicted by the government for illegally downloading millions of academic articles from a nonprofit online database. From the age of fifteen, when Swartz, a computer prodigy, worked with Lawrence Lessig to launch Creative Commons, to his years as a fighter for copyright reform and open information, to his work leading the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to his posthumous status as a cultural icon, Swartz's life was inextricably connected to the free culture movement. Now Justin Peters examines Swartz's life in the context of 200 years of struggle over the control of information."--