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A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
A Is for American Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Author: Jill Lepore
What ties Americans to one another? Not race, religion, or ethnicity. At the nation?s founding, some commentators wondered whether adopting a common tongue might help bind the newly United States together. ?A national language is a national tie,? Noah Webster argued in 1786, ?and what country wants it more than America?? — In the century followin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375404498
ISBN-10: 037540449X
Publication Date: 2/12/2002
Pages: 256
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
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