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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

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3 out of 5
Based on 192 Ratings and 86 Reviews

Book Description
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 lis... More
Book Information
PublisherBerkley Publishing Group
BindingPaperback (12 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages320
ISBN-100425225895
ISBN-13978-0425225899
Publication Date03/03/2009
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About Joshua Kendall (Author) : Joshua Kendall is a published author. A published credit of Joshua Kendall is The Man Who Made Lists.
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