The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua C Kendall

The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua C Kendall

In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, a brisk and vivid( Los Angeles Times) account of an obsessive scholar.

Polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado, Peter Mark Roget had a host of female admirers, was one of the first to test the effects of laughing gas, invented the slide rule, and narrowly escaped jail in Napoleon's France. But Roget is best known for making lists.

After the tragic turmoil of his early life (both his mother and sister were institutionalized), Roget longed for order in his chaotic world. At the age of eight, he began his quest to put everything in its rightful place, one word at a time. This is the fascinating story of a driven man and a brilliant scholar-and the legacy he has left for generations.

Joshua C. Kendall is the author of The Man Who Made Lists (Putnam, 2008), about the creation of Roget's Thesaurus, and The Forgotten Founding Father (Putnam, 2011), a biography of Noah Webster, the lexicographer responsible for Webster's Dictionary. He is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Psychology Today and BusinessWeek, among others publications. He is an Associate Fellow of Yale's Trumbull College

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ISBN 13	9780399154621
ISBN 10	0399154620
Title	The Man Who Made Lists
Author	Joshua C Kendall
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Putnam Adult
Year published	2008-03-13
Number of pages	304
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