Rush: Revolution, Insanity, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Physician Who Grew to become a Founding Father

The monumental lifetime of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and considered one of our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers

 

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By the point he was thirty, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited 
Widespread Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and change into John Adams’s confidant, and was quickly to be appointed Washington’s surgeon common. And as with the best Revolutionary minds, Rush was solely simply starting his function in 1776 within the American experiment. As the brand new republic coalesced, he grew to become a visionary author and reformer; a medical pioneer whose insights and reforms revolutionized the therapy of psychological sickness; an opponent of slavery and prejudice by race, faith, or gender; an adviser to, and infrequently the doctor of, America’s first leaders; and “the American Hippocrates.” 
Rush reveals his singular life and towering legacy, putting in him within the pantheon of our wisest and boldest Founding Fathers.

 

Reward for Rush

 

“Entertaining . . . Benjamin Rush has been undeservedly forgotten. In drugs . . . [and] as a political thinker, he was sensible.”
—The New Yorker

 

“Excellent . . . reminds us eloquently, abundantly, what an excellent, unique man Benjamin Rush was, and the way his contributions to . . . the USA proceed to bless us all.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer

 

“Perceptive . . . [a] readable reassessment of Rush’s outstanding profession.”
—The Wall Road Journal

 

“A tremendous life and a captivating e-book.”
—CBS This Morning

“Fried makes the case, on this complete and engaging biography, that renaissance man Benjamin Rush deserves extra consideration. . . . Fried portrays Rush as a fancy, flawed particular person and never only a listing of accomplishments; . . . a testomony to the authorial thoroughness and perception that can maintain readers engaged till the final web page.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred evaluate)

“[An] extraordinary and underappreciated man is reinstated to his rightful place within the canon of civilizational development in Rush. . . . Had I learn Fried’s 
Rush earlier than the 12 months’s finish, it will have topped my favourite books of 2018 . . . [a] excellent biography.”
—Mind Pickings