A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order Flanders Judith
A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order Flanders Judith From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. The story of…
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A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order Flanders Judith
From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia.
And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules -- libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- it has remained curiously invisible. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification -- Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph
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