Author: Benjamin RushPublisher:
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The autobiography of benjamin rush, edited by george corner
Author: Benjamin RushThe Autobiography of Benjamin Rush. His "Travels Through Life," Together with His Commonplace Book for 1789-1813. Edited with Introduction and Notes by George W. Corner. Now First Printed in Full from the Original Manuscripts in Possession of The American Philosophical Society and The Library Company of Philadelphia. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.].
Author: Benjamin RUSH (the Elder.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 399
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush
Author: Benjamin RushPublisher: Praeger
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush
Author: Benjamin RushThe Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His 'Travels Through Life', Together with His Commomplace Book for 1789-1813
Author: Benjamin RUSH (the Elder.)Publisher:
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Benjamin Rush
Author: Alyn BrodskyPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466859741
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The only full biography of Benjamin Rush, an extraordinary Founding Father and America's leading physician of the Colonial era While Benjamin Rush appears often and meaningfully in biographies about John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, this legendary man is presented as little more than a historical footnote. Yet, he was a propelling force in what culminated in the Declaration of Independence, of which he was a signer. Rush was an early agitator for independence, a member of the First Continental Congress, and one of the leading surgeons of the Continental Army during the early phase of the Revolutionary War. He was a constant and indefatigable adviser to the foremost figures of the American Revolution, notably George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. Even if he had not played a major role in our country's creation, Rush would have left his mark in history as an eminent physician and a foremost social reformer in such areas as medical teaching, treatment of the mentally ill (he is considered the Father of American Psychiatry), international prevention of yellow fever, establishment of public schools, implementation of improved education for women, and much more. For readers of well-written biographies, Brodsky has illuminated the life of one of America's great and overlooked revolutionaries.
Letters of Benjamin Rush
Author: Lyman Henry ButterfieldPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691200769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Volume 2 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush's Autobiography. Written between 1761 and 1813, the letters trace Rush's career, from student in Scotland and England to signer of the Declaration of Independence and Philadelphia's leading physician. He writes to John Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Witherspoon, and a host of others. Two fascinating series of letters chronicle the failures of the hospital service in the Revolutionary War and the Philadelphia yellow-fever epidemic of 1793. Rush the private individual is revealed in the letters to his wife. Published for the American Philosophical Society. Lyman Butterfield is associate editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Originally published in 1951. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Light and the Glory for Young Readers
Author: Peter MarshallPublisher: Revell
ISBN: 0800733738
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
These young readers' editions of the popular history texts reveal how God was at work in America's history from the very beginning. For ages 9 to 12.
Light and the Glory, The
Author: Peter MarshallPublisher: Revell
ISBN: 0800719425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Now revised and expanded for the first time in more than thirty years, this classic will now be available for a new generation of readers.
The Noblest Minds
Author: Peter McNamaraPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847686827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ever since Douglass Adair convincingly demonstrated that a love of fame was central to the American founding, political scientists and historians have started to view the founders and their acts in a new light. In The Noblest Minds, ten distinguished scholars examine this passion for fame and honor and demonstrate for the first time its significance in the development of American democracy. The first two-thirds of the book is devoted to essays on individual founders, as the contributors consider the role of fame in the lives and political characters of Washington, Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Marshall. The remaining chapters analyze the founders' theoretical accomplishment in reviving political science, and explore the problem of honor in the modern world. Political scientists and American historians alike will find this book to be valuable and illuminating. What made the founding generation of American statesmen so outstanding? To answer this question, The Noblest Minds brings together a distinguished group of historians and political scientists to evaluate a neglected but compelling theory advanced nearly four decades ago by Douglass Adair. Adair argued that it was the 'love of fame' that moved many of the leading lights of the founding generation. Adair's thesis is the starting point for a series of searching essays on the role of fame in the lives of Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Marshall, and Washington. These profiles also provide wide-ranging historical and philosophical reflections on the question of fame. What emerges from these essays is a more complex picture of the founding generation than that presented by Adair. While acknowledging the role of the love of fame, The Noblest Minds argues for the influence of other concerns such as honor, virtue, and the cause of liberty. This more complex picture of the founding generation provides a unique and rewarding vantage point from which to consider the question of 'character' in politics, which looms so large in contemporary political debate. It illuminates the differences between true fame and mere celebrity in such a way as to point to considerations that transcend both. Political scientists and American historians alike will find this book to be valuable and illuminating.