The Man Who Made Lists

In the same vein as the bestselling THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN, Joshua Kendall recounts the neurosis and triumphs of Peter Mark Roget, an obsessive-compulsive who escaped the demons of his family by fanatically organizing the English language and eventually creating Roget's Thesaurus.

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