Joshua Kendall: 5 books

Book cover of America's Obsessives

America's Obsessives

The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation

by Joshua Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred ogling new gadgets at the hardware store to...
Book cover of The Forgotten Founding Father

The Forgotten Founding Father

Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture

by Joshua Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011

Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Now acclaimed author of The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall sheds new light on Webster's life, and his far-reaching influence in establishing the American nation. Webster hobnobbed...
Book cover of First Dads

First Dads

Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama

by Joshua Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

Every president has had some experience as a parent. Of the 43 men who have served in the nation's highest office, 38 have fathered biological children and the other five adopted children. Each president's parenting style reveals much about his beliefs as well as his psychological make-up. James Garfield...
Book cover of The Man Who Made Lists

The Man Who Made Lists

Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

by Joshua Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008

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...
Book cover of Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain

Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain

Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children

by Phyllis Stien, Joshua C Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014

Explore interventions and treatment methods designed to help curb the alarming trend toward violence in today's youth! Written in jargon-free lucid prose, Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children specifically shows how positive...
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