Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation

by Harlow Giles Unger

Book Overview

A gripping, often startling biography of the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot--an America of women, African Americans, Jews, Roman Catholics, Quakers, indentured workers, the poor, the mentally ill, and war veterans

Ninety percent of Americans could not vote and did not enjoy rights to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness when our Founding Fathers proclaimed, "all men are created equal." Alone among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306824329
• ISBN13: 9780306824326
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"