The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture-Fast Shipping

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Noah Webster’s name is now synonymous with the dictionary hecreated, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Now acclaimedauthor of The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall sheds new lighton Webster’s life, and his far-reaching influence in establishing theAmerican nation.

Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a youngconfidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started New York’sfirst daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton’s New YorkPost. His “blue-backed speller” for schoolchildren sold millions ofcopies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important,Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively Americanculture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States ofAmerica were anything but unified-and his dictionary of AmericanEnglish is a testament to that.