A Is for American by Lepore, Jill -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Table of Contents Dedication Epigraph Acclaim for Jill Lepore’s Prologue Part One

Chapter 1

Our Pretended Union Our Political Harmony Speaking the Same Language There iz no alternativ Kamyn Ius Noah Cobweb

Chapter 2

TuÐ] Sitiznz ov Norø Am]rika The Dictates of Conscience All the World More Nearly Allied The Celebrated Volney The Mad Work of Factions Unnatural Aliens A French Revolution Among the Alphabet The Revolution of 1800

Part Two

Chapter 3

The White Man Is No Magician Reducing the Language A Perfect Alphabet Very Unphilosophical A National Alphabet Marks upon a Stone East Meets West As Moses Did

Chapter 4

A Sad Monopoly Natural Language A Universal Language A Foreign Language Manifest Destiny

Chapter 5

A Facsimile Many to Become Christians Strange Characters The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom A Negro Who Can Read and Write Saith the Sheikh to Mecca

Part Three

Chapter 6

The American Leonardo Trop étendue pour Former une République Imminent Dangers What Hath God Wrought Civil Wires Speaking Trumpets

Chapter 7

All Men Are of One Mouth Mama! A Dead Man’s Ear Telegraphy and Visible Speech Together Strictly by Mouth A Truly American Race

Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Jill Lepore Copyright Page

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