Joshua Kendall

Autore di The Man Who Made Lists

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Comprende i nomi: JoshuaKendal, Joshua Kendal, Joshua C. Kendall

Opere di Joshua Kendall

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The Man Who Made Lists (2008) 497 copie

The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture (2010) 364 copie

First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama (2016) 78 copie

America's Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation (2013) 25 copie

It's on Uncle Sam 1 copia

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Americano (5) Autobiografia/Biografia (6) BIO (4) Biografia (187) biography-memoir (5) Copertina rigida (6) da leggere (53) dizionari (8) Dizionario (13) Founding Fathers (10) Gran Bretagna (4) Inghilterra (6) Inglese (6) Lessicografia (29) Letteratura (6) letto (5) lexicographers (14) libri sui libri (10) Lingua inglese (21) Linguaggio (44) Linguistica (10) lista dei desideri (4) liste (6) Noah Webster (25) non letto (5) parole (14) Peter Mark Roget (15) Presidente (6) rivoluzione americana (7) Roget (12) Roget's Thesaurus (5) Saggistica (82) sinonimi (5) Stati Uniti d'America (12) Storia (87) storia americana (32) Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America (8) Thesaurus (36) XIX secolo (14) XVIII secolo (9)

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Informazioni generali

Altri nomi: Kendall, Joshua C.
Data di nascita: 1960
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: New York, New York, USA
Luogo di residenza: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Istruzione: Johns Hopkins University
Yale College (AB summa cum laude|Comparative Literature)
Attività lavorative: journalist
freelance writer
Premi e riconoscimenti: National Mental Health Association
American Psychoanalytic Association
Agente: Lane Zachary

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Recensioni

The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's… di Joshua Kendall

3/31/22

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laplantelibrary | 5 altre recensioni | Mar 31, 2022 |

The Man Who Made Lists di Joshua Kendall

3/12/22

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laplantelibrary | 13 altre recensioni | Mar 12, 2022 |

The Man Who Made Lists di Joshua Kendall

The Man who Made Lists, Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall (pp290). This is a wonderful, detailed biography of polymath Peter Mark Roget, the author of the most celebrated (but hardly the only) thesaurus in history. This is a must-read for all my philologist friends. In his own words, “Words are the instruments by which we form all our abstractions, by which we fashion and embody our ideas, and by which we are enabled to glide along a series of premises and conclusions.”

Remote: distant, isolated, insular, lonely, removed, solitary

Observant: attentive, mindful, aware, tending toward awareness and appreciation

Gifted: talented, endowed, intelligent

Educated: enlightened, informed, literate, lettered

Thoughtful: cogitative, contemplative, rumination, cerebral… (altro)

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wildh2o | 13 altre recensioni | Jul 10, 2021 |

The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's… di Joshua Kendall

It turns out that Noah Webster was more than just a dictionary writer. He fought in the Revolution, was involved in the tumultuous politics of the 1790s, and, of course, influenced education with his speller. This book is solid and readable, but not a tour de force. If you are looking for an in depth explanation of lexicography or Webster's methods in compiling his dictionary, you must look elsewhere. But as an overall look at Webster's multi-faceted life, this is a great book.

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tuckerresearch | 5 altre recensioni | Oct 30, 2018 |

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