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　　What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of

citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds?

These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and

nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United

States together.

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 use of

“Visible Speech” to help teach the deaf to talk, to Sequoyah’s

development of a Cherokee syllabary as a means of preserving his

people’s independence, these stories form a compelling portrait of

a developing nation’s struggles. Lepore brilliantly explores the

personalities, work, and influence of these figures, seven men

driven by radically different aims and temperaments. Through these

superbly told stories, she chronicles the challenges faced by a

young country trying to unify its diverse people.

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　　Jill Lepore is an associate professor of history at Boston

University. She is the author of The Name of War: King Philip’s

War and the Origins of American Identity, which won the

Bancroft Prize, Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, the

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians’ Book Prize, and the New

England Historical Association’s Book Award.

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媒体评论

　　?Engaging. . . . Deftly evokes a rich and colorful tradition,

the American as inventor, unifier, optimist and idealist.?

?Newsday

　　?Remarkable. . . . I read it at one sitting, mesmerized by the

scholarship, the erudition and the elegant simplicity of this story

of seven consummately noble American lives, each one of them, as

Jill Lepore reveals, a pilgrimage in the grand search for a

nation-creating linguistic ideal.? ?Simon Winchester, author of The

Professor and the Madman

　　?Wonderfully engrossing.? ?Boston Globe

　　?Lepore is a terrific storyteller, alert to trenchant details but

also able to convey the connections between events, the sweep of an

epoch.? ?The New York Times Book Review

　　?This is a book to ponder and re-leaf and return to.? ?Times

Literary Supplement

　　?A great read.? ?Chicago Tribune

　　?Eloquent. . . Smart and suggestive. . . Readers will enjoy an

intriguing journey filled with many small gems of understanding.?

?The New Republic

　　?Insightful and engaging. . . . Lepore?s handling of [these

men?s] distinctive careers gives them the place they deserve in the

national consciousness.??St. Louis Post-Dispatch

　　?Lepore?s fresh work is suggestive of new ways of imagining what

unites and divides us, what binds us to this earth.??Raleigh News

& Observer

　　?Entertaining. . . a charming book about the quirky origins of

some influential early American inventions.??The Washington

Times

　　?Lepore has . . . produced a work of cultural history that is

both diverting and informative.? ?Book -- Revie

书籍介绍

What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together.

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 use of “Visible Speech” to help teach the deaf to talk, to Sequoyah’s development of a Cherokee syllabary as a means of preserving his people’s independence, these stories form a compelling portrait of a developing nation’s struggles. Lepore brilliantly explores the personalities, work, and influence of these figures, seven men driven by radically different aims and temperaments. Through these superbly told stories, she chronicles the challenges faced by a young country trying to unify its diverse people.