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Dates Covered: 1750 - 1870
ISBN: 037540449X
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Our Take
What do the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, a raving xenophobic lunatic and a sour holier-than-thou lawyer have in common? They all (Sequoyah, Morse and Webster) helped America to achieve linguistic independence from its mother country and tongue, England. This highly original book takes a different route through the traditional tour of antebellum America. In pictures of five separate lives Jill Lepore creates one of those rarities: a really readable book about the early of America, one that manages to step above all the mythology. Read More at Amazon.com
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