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ISBN-13
9780375704086
Book Title
A Is for American
ISBN
9780375704086
Publication Year
2003
Type
Language Course
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Is for American : Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Item Height
0.5in
Author
Jill Lepore
Item Length
8.1in
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together. In A is for American , award-winning historian Jill Lepore portrays seven men who turned to language to help shape a new nation's character and boundaries. From Noah Webster's attempts to standardize American spelling, to Alexander Graham Bell's use of "Visible Speech" to help teach the deaf to talk, to Sequoyah's development of a Cherokee syllabary as a means of preserving his people's independence, these stories form a compelling portrait of a developing nation's struggles. Lepore brilliantly explores the personalities, work, and influence of these figures, seven men driven by radically different aims and temperaments. Through these superbly told stories, she chronicles the challenges faced by a young country trying to unify its diverse people.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375704086
ISBN-13
9780375704086
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2463587

Product Key Features

Author
Jill Lepore
Publication Name
Is for American : Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Type
Language Course
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.1in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pe2809
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"Engaging. . . . Deftly evokes a rich and colorful tradition, the American as inventor, unifier, optimist and idealist."Newsday "Remarkable. . . . I read it at one sitting, mesmerized by the scholarship, the erudition and the elegant simplicity of this story of seven consummately noble American lives, each one of them, as Jill Lepore reveals, a pilgrimage in the grand search for a nation-creating linguistic ideal." Simon Winchester, author ofThe Professor and the Madman "Wonderfully engrossing." Boston Globe "Lepore is a terrific storyteller, alert to trenchant details but also able to convey the connections between events, the sweep of an epoch." The New York Times Book Review "This is a book to ponder and re-leaf and return to." Times Literary Supplement "A great read." Chicago Tribune "Eloquent. . . Smart and suggestive. . . Readers will enjoy an intriguing journey filled with many small gems of understanding." The New Republic "Insightful and engaging. . . . Lepore's handling of [these men's] distinctive careers gives them the place they deserve in the national consciousness."St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Lepore's fresh work is suggestive of new ways of imagining what unites and divides us, what binds us to this earth."Raleigh News & Observer "Entertaining. . . a charming book about the quirky origins of some influential early American inventions."The Washington Times "Lepore has . . . produced a work of cultural history that is both diverting and informative." Book, "Engaging. . . . Deftly evokes a rich and colorful tradition, the American as inventor, unifier, optimist and idealist." Newsday "Remarkable. . . . I read it at one sitting, mesmerized by the scholarship, the erudition and the elegant simplicity of this story of seven consummately noble American lives, each one of them, as Jill Lepore reveals, a pilgrimage in the grand search for a nation-creating linguistic ideal." Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman "Wonderfully engrossing." Boston Globe "Lepore is a terrific storyteller, alert to trenchant details but also able to convey the connections between events, the sweep of an epoch." The New York Times Book Review "This is a book to ponder and re-leaf and return to." Times Literary Supplement "A great read." Chicago Tribune "Eloquent. . . Smart and suggestive. . . Readers will enjoy an intriguing journey filled with many small gems of understanding." The New Republic "Insightful and engaging. . . . Lepore's handling of [these men's] distinctive careers gives them the place they deserve in the national consciousness." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Lepore's fresh work is suggestive of new ways of imagining what unites and divides us, what binds us to this earth." Raleigh News & Observer "Entertaining. . . a charming book about the quirky origins of some influential early American inventions." The Washington Times "Lepore has . . . produced a work of cultural history that is both diverting and informative." Book From the Trade Paperback edition., "Engaging. . . . Deftly evokes a rich and colorful tradition, the American as inventor, unifier, optimist and idealist." Newsday "Remarkable. . . . I read it at one sitting, mesmerized by the scholarship, the erudition and the elegant simplicity of this story of seven consummately noble American lives, each one of them, as Jill Lepore reveals, a pilgrimage in the grand search for a nation-creating linguistic ideal." Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman "Wonderfully engrossing." Boston Globe "Lepore is a terrific storyteller, alert to trenchant details but also able to convey the connections between events, the sweep of an epoch." The New York Times Book Review "This is a book to ponder and re-leaf and return to." Times Literary Supplement "A great read." Chicago Tribune "Eloquent. . . Smart and suggestive. . . Readers will enjoy an intriguing journey filled with many small gems of understanding." The New Republic "Insightful and engaging. . . . Lepore's handling of [these men's] distinctive careers gives them the place they deserve in the national consciousness." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Lepore's fresh work is suggestive of new ways of imagining what unites and divides us, what binds us to this earth." Raleigh News & Observer "Entertaining. . . a charming book about the quirky origins of some influential early American inventions." The Washington Times "Lepore has . . . produced a work of cultural history that is both diverting and informative." Book
Topic
Native American Languages, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Historical, United States / General
Dewey Decimal
306.44/973/09033
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines, History

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