Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture



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American's own The Professor and the Madman: a story of Noah Webster, author of American English.

Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous.

Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started America's first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton's New York Post. His "blue-backed speller" for ... More >>

The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture

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