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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
The Man Who Made Lists Love Death Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Author: Joshua Kendall
In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, a brisk and vivid 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. B...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780425225899
ISBN-10: 0425225895
Publication Date: 3/3/2009
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Berkley Trade
Book Type: Paperback
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