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    <![CDATA[&quot;A&quot; Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States]]>
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    <![CDATA[Nativist, xenophobe, and anti-immigration pamphleteer, Samuel Morse was  known in his day for more than the telegraphic code that bears his name--one of  the many things we learn from the prizewinning historian Jill Lepore in this  vivid study of language and linguistic politics in the early American republic.  Morse &quot;never gave up his hatred of immigrants,&quot; Lepore writes, but all the same  nursed hopes that his dot-and-dash alphabet would somehow contribute to world  peace. Just so, Noah Webster, of dictionary fame and also anti-immigration,  sought to lay down rules for a language that would &quot;build Americans' fragile  sense of national belonging,&quot; while Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet sought to provide a  language for the deaf, and Sequoyah a syllabary for the Cherokee people that  would enable them to participate as citizens in the larger society. Language is  power, these reformers and inventors knew. Lepore's highly readable study of  language and its political uses in 18th and 19th century America gives us a new  context in which to consider language-reform movements today as well as a window  into the American past. <em>--Gregory McNamee</em>]]>
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