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
416Related collections and offers
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781101486542 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 04/14/2011 |
Sold by: | Penguin Group |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 416 |
Sales rank: | 356,408 |
File size: | 3 MB |
Age Range: | 18 Years |