Most Important Founding Father You Probably Don't Know
Dr. Benjamin Rush, Psychiatrist, Ardent Abolitionist
In American iconography, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and more recently, Alexander Hamilton (thanks to playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda) seem to tower above other founders. But we should understand that it was an extraordinarily fluid time in which many people made a great deal of difference. The American revolution was a bottom-up, not …
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