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A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order book cover by Judith Flanders
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A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

by Judith Flanders

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Hardcover · 352 pages Basic Books · 2020

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A Place for Everything

From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world.
 
A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. 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. 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. 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.
 
With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z.

A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020


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Publisher
Basic Books
Author
Judith Flanders
Format
Hardcover
Published
Oct 20, 2020
ISBN-13
9781541675070
ISBN-10
154167507X
Pages
352
Carton quantity
20 copies
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