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Rush : revolution, madness, and the visionary doctor who became a founding father / Stephen Fried.

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"The remarkable story of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our nation's most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers ... One of the youngest signatories [of the Declaration of Independence] ... he was also, among stiff competition, one of the most visionary. A brilliant physician and writer, Rush was known as the "American Hippocrates" for pioneering national healthcare and revolutionizing treatment of mental illness and addiction. Yet medicine is only part of his legacy. Dr. Rush was both a progressive thorn in the side of the American political establishment--a vocal opponent of slavery, capital punishment, and prejudice by race, religion or gender--and close friends with its most prominent leaders. He was the protégé of Franklin, the editor of Common Sense, Washington's surgeon general, and the broker of peace between Adams and Jefferson, yet his stubborn convictions more than once threatened his career and his place in the narrative of America's founding. Drawing on a trove of previously unpublished letters and images, the voluminous correspondence between Rush and his better-known counterparts, and his candid and incisive personal writings ... Stephen Fried ... finally installs Dr. Rush in the pantheon of great American leaders."--Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780804140065
  • ISBN: 0804140065
  • ISBN: 9780804140089
  • ISBN: 0804140081
  • Physical Description: 597 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 560-573) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Turbulent spirit -- American Hippocrates.
Subject: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
United States. Declaration of Independence > Signers > Biography.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
Revolutionaries > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography.
Physicians > United States > Biography.
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783.
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
United States. Declaration of Independence.
Physicians > history.
American Revolution.
History, 18th Century.
United States.
Rush, Benjamin 1746-1813
Genre: Biographies.
Biography.
Nonfiction.
Biographies.
History.

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