DR. BENJAMIN RUSH: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation

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. Restores Benjamin Rush as the Founding Father of modern American medical care and psychiatry. Illus.