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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 following the drafting of the Constitution, Americans from Noah Webster to Samue... 

Jeff says: “this is an amazing book - accessible, intriguing, and yet captures the dynamics of language and l...”