Joshua Kendall
Autor de The Man Who Made Lists
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Joshua Kendall
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Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Kendall, Joshua C.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1960
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- Johns Hopkins University
Yale College (AB summa cum laude|Comparative Literature) - Ocupaciones
- journalist
freelance writer - Premios y honores
- National Mental Health Association
American Psychoanalytic Association - Agente
- Lane Zachary
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The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's… por Joshua Kendall
3/31/22
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… (más)
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… (más)
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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