Books by John H. McWhorter

John H. McWhorter
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	Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English by John H. McWhorter 3.73 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John H. McWhorter 3.93 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America by John H. McWhorter 3.78 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	What Language Is: And What it Isn't and What it Could Be by John H. McWhorter 3.66 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care by John H. McWhorter 3.57 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English by John H. McWhorter 3.86 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Story of Human Language by John H. McWhorter 4.39 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Authentically Black by John H. McWhorter 3.64 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America by John H. McWhorter 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by John H. McWhorter 3.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language (Parts 1-3) by John H. McWhorter 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings	My rating:
	Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America by John H. McWhorter 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The Great Courses (Social Sciences: The Story Of Human Language, Volumes 1-3) by John H. McWhorter 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis by John H. McWhorter 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars by John H. McWhorter 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Defining Creole by John H. McWhorter 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering Birth of Plantation by John H. McWhorter 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	My rating:

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