Free Download The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture by Joshua Kendall, Arthur Morey, Penguin Audio
English | April 14, 2011 | ISBN: B004WHT972 | 12 hours and 45 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 350 Mb
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 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.
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