Still, the success of Webster's promotional efforts created one of the most successful textbooks of all time and made his name, in America at least, synonymous with the dictionary. Pyles did not like him, as this description shows: "Webster was smug. Self- assured and pugnacious in his pedantry as in his Puritanism and his patriotism: the righteousness of his later portraits seems always to have dour, thin-lipped. Jut. -jawed been characteristic or him (1952: 94). But he still offered the following summary assessment (1952: 123):