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John McWhorter

Author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

Includes the names: John McWhorter, John McWhorter, John McWhorter, John W. McWhorter, John H. McWhorter

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language	693	23	125	3.90	4.00	0.93
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English	403	13	69	3.78	4.00	0.70
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America	202	3	31	4.24	4.00	0.74
Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care	234	1	22	3.52	3.75	0.94
The Story of Human Language: The Great Courses (Literature & English Language; 3 Volumes)	46	6	13	4.58	5.00	0.58
Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English	83	1	13	3.81	3.50	0.87
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be!	69	4	11	4.18	4.00	0.72
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America	82	2	8	3.81	4.00	0.61
Authentically Black	77	1	6	3.33	3.75	1.40
The Best American Political Writing 2003	26		6	3.50	3.50	0.50
Defining Creole	9		2	5.00	5.00
Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America	7	1	2	2.50	2.50	0.50
Is English special because it's 'Globish'?	1	1	1	3.50	3.50
All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America	22	1	1	1.00	1.00
'The Cosmopolitan Tongue: the universality of English' in World Affairs, fall 2009	1
Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage (DVD)	1
The Story of Human Language: Pt 2	3
The Story of Human Language: Pt 1	3
The Story of Human Language (Course Guidebook)	1
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language	10
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages (Creole Language Library)	2
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles (Creole Language Library)	4
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars	4
The missing Spanish creoles : recovering the birth of plantation contact languages	4
Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis (Studies in Ethnolinguistics, Vol 3)	1
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language, Part II	1
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language, Part I	1
The Story of Human Language: Pt 3	3
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language, Part III	1