Books by Joshua Kendall and Complete Book Reviews
Joshua Kendall, Author . Putnam $25.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-399-15462-1
First published in London in 1852, Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
became popular in America with the 1920s crosswords craze and has sold almost 40 million copies worldwide. According to freelancer Kendall in this Professor and
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Joshua Kendall, Putnam, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15699-1
In 1828 Noah Webster published the groundbreaking American Dictionary of the English Language and secured his niche as an avatar of a distinct American culture. Kendall (The Man Who Made Lists) honors Webster's crucial contributions to early...
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Joshua Kendall. Grand Central, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4555-0238-7
In this quirky history, journo Kendall (The Forgotten Founding Father) profiles a “ticker-tape parade of American icons” in an effort to understand how their “obsessions and compulsions... fueled their stratospheric success.” Across a range of...
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Joshua Kendall. Grand Central, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-1-455-55195-8
As biographer Kendall (The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture) argues, one can learn a great deal about American presidents by examining their parenting styles. To that end, Kendall highlights
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