A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States by Jill Lepore

A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States

Jill Lepore

256 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In A is for American, award-winning historian Jill Lepore portrays seven men who turned to language to help shape a new nation’s character and boundaries. From Noah Webster’s attempts to standardize American spelling, to Alexander Graham Bell’s us...

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