Jesse Sheidlower in the New York Times Book Review of 5/29/31: “Colonial Polymath: Noah Webster was a journalist, reformer, and lexicographer”, a review of Joshua Kendall’s The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture. Early on, we discover that with all his accomplishments, Webster was also notably dislikable. Arrogant, … Continue reading The lexicographer’s obsession