Rush

 
“Fried makes the case, in this comprehensive and fascinating biography, that renaissance man Benjamin Rush merits more attention….Fried portrays Rush as a complex, flawed person and not just a list of accomplishments.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“A perceptive analysis…reveal[s] a dedicated humanitarian with an enduring influence….Through the efforts of Mr. Fried…what Benjamin Rush characterized as ‘the distant and more enlightened generations’ are now better placed to judge him.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“A welcome biography of a Founding Father…[who] became a prominent revolutionary and signer of the Declaration of Independence, then surgeon general of the Continental Army…renowned in the annals of American medicine as a pioneer of medical education and the treatment of the mentally ill….A complete portrait of a complex man…who excited attention and controversy in his day but then fell into the shadows. Fried does well to restore him to history.”—Kirkus