Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but although there is much more to his story than that singular achievement, his rightful place in American history has been forgotten over time. Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, among others.
Prologue: George Washington’s Cultural Attaché: The Definer of American Identity
Chapter 1: Hartford Childhood and Yale Manhood
Chapter 2: Spelling the New Nation
Chapter 4: Counting His Way across America
Chapter 5: Courtship at the Constitutional Convention
Chapter 6: Marriage and a Turn Away from Words
Chapter 7: Editor of New York City’s First Daily
Chapter 8: Setting His Sights on Johnson and Johnson Jr.
Chapter 11: The Walking Dictionary
Chapter 12: “More Fleshy Than Ever Before”
Epilogue: Webster’s after Webster: The Director of Defining