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 							The Story of Ain’t by David Skinner is the captivating true chronicle of the creation of Merriam
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary in 1961, the most controversial dictionary ever published.
Skinner’s surprising and engaging, erudite and witty account will enthrall fans of Winchester’s The
Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything, and The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs, as it explores a culture in
transition and the brilliant, colorful individuals behind it. The Story of Ain’t is a smart, often outrageous,
and altogether remarkable tale of how egos, infighting, and controversy shaped one of America’s most
authoritative language texts, sparking a furious language debate that the late, great author David Foster Wallace
(Infinite Jest) once called “the Fort Sumter of the Usage Wars.”  
  
  
  “An
immensely entertaining history…Skinner manages to transform this somewhat arcane lexicographical dispute into a
real page turner…Skinner ably and amusingly captures the hysterical tone of the bitter public quarrel while
suggesting that it foreshadowed many of the arguments over values and standards that we’re still fighting about
today.” —Associated Press
  
  “An engrossing account of the continuing ruckus over
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.” —New York Times Book Review
  
  “Mr.
Skinner does a fine job detailing the controversy that greeted Webster’s Third, but he is even stronger when
describing the internal politics at Merriam and the mechanics of revising a dictionary.” —Wall Street
Journal
   
  “Skinner is good on the development of 20th-century linguistics and on the interplay
between America’s language and its sense of itself.” —Financial Times
  
 
“…comprehensive and evenhanded, and written in a clear and jaunty style…What in less skilled hands
might have been arid and parochial in David Skinner’s becomes a lively account of a subject of interest to anyone
concerned about the English language in America.” —Weekly Standard
   
  “...delightful new
book on lexicography…Skinner leaves no doubt as to the importance of Webster’s Third as the game-changer in
dictionary standards and the impetus for an American cultural metamorphosis.” —Shelf Awareness
  
  “The Story of Ain’t is a book about words, the national character, and the inevitability of change. And
it’s so fun, you might not even realize that you’re joining the debate.” —Hillsdale
Collegian
   
  “A fascinating, highly entertaining cultural history that will enchant an audience
beyond word nerds....Skinner nimbly, concisely--and without academic dryness--traces the everyday changes that shaped
what came out of Americans’ mouths and into our dictionaries.” —BookPage
  
  “It
takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the
bodice-ripper. With his riveting account…David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it
to popular perfection.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the
Madman and Atlantic
  
  “The flap over Webster’s Third in 1961 was a never-to-be-repeated
episode in American cultural history…. David Skinner tells it brilliantly…as he brings to life the odd cast
of characters who played a role in the affair.” —Geoffrey Nunberg, University of California at Berkeley,
emeritus chair of the American Heritage Dictionary usage panel, language commentator, "Fresh Air," NPR
  
 
“A fascinating account of a major paradigm shift in the American language, when a group of bold lexicographers
decided to tell it like it is and causing a huge cultural rumpus. This is more than just a story about a new edition of
a dictionary.” —Christopher Buckley, New York Times bestselling author of They Eat Puppies, Don't They? and
Thank You for Smoking
  
  “David Skinner tells the tale of a great battle in the 1960s War Between the
Real and the Ideal. It was a conflict with realists laying claim to idealism and idealists asserting realism and vice
versa. Skinner makes it all clear.” —P.J. O'Rourke, New York Times bestselling author of Holidays in Heck
and Don't Vote--It Just Encourages
    						

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