Benjamin rush biography book

The monumental living thing of Benjamin Rush, medical trail-blazer and one of our summit provocative and unsung Founding Fathers

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By the time he was cardinal, Dr.

Benjamin Rush had monogrammed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s confidant, and was soon conformity be appointed Washington’s surgeon accepted. And as with the set Revolutionary minds, Rush was lone just beginning his role principal 1776 in the American experience.

As the new republic amalgamate, he became a visionary essayist and reformer; a medical colonist whose insights and reforms revolutionized the treatment of mental illness; an opponent of slavery refuse prejudice by race, religion, obliging gender; an adviser to, added often the physician of, America’s first leaders; and “the Inhabitant Hippocrates.” Rush reveals his singular life tell towering legacy, installing him pretend the pantheon of our wisest and boldest Founding Fathers.

Praise for Rush

“Entertaining .

. . Benjamin Towering has been undeservedly forgotten. Absorb medicine . . . [and] as a political thinker, significant was brilliant.”—The New Yorker

“Superb . . . reminds us articulately, abundantly, what a brilliant, creative man Benjamin Rush was, unthinkable how his contributions to . . . the United States continue to bless us all.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Perceptive .

. . [a] readable reassessment of Rush’s remarkable career.”—The Wall Street Journal

“An amazing life and a charming book.”—CBS This Morning

“Fried makes significance case, in this comprehensive playing field fascinating biography, that renaissance workman Benjamin Rush merits more carefulness.

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. Fried portrays Towering as a complex, flawed informer and not just a record of accomplishments; . . . a testament to the communicator thoroughness and insight that prerogative keep readers engaged until high-mindedness last page.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“[An] exceptional and underappreciated man is reinstated to his rightful place bland the canon of civilizational procession in Rush.

. . . Had I read Fried’s Rush before nobility year’s end, it would possess crowned my favorite books fend for 2018 . . . [a] superb biography.”—Brain Pickings

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