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David Sacks has 22 books on Goodreads with 3084 ratings. David Sacks’s most popular book is Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A ...
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- David Sacks (Author of Letter Perfect)
Letter Perfect: The A-to-Z History of Our Alphabet. Paperback – Aug. 3 2004. by David Sacks (Author) 4.4 167 ratings. See all formats and editions. Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories.
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The heart of the book is the 26 fact-filled “biographies” of letters A through Z, each one identifying the letter’s particular significance for modern readers, tracing its development from ancient forms, and discussing its noteworthy role in literature and other media.
Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we take for granted the long, fascinating history behind one of the most fundamental of human inventions: the alphabet.
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Aug 3, 2004 · Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z. Paperback – August 3, 2004. by David Sacks (Author) 4.4 203 ratings. See all formats and editions. A fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet—and cultural history. Letters are tangible language.
David Sacks is the author of Letter Perfect (3.99 avg rating, 703 ratings, 113 reviews, published 2003), Vigfus the Viking (4.00 avg rating, 16 ratings, ...
