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This work examines the role Dr. Benjamin Rush, an American Revolution patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and volunteer wartime physician played in the genesis and ideology of the Early American Republic. Providing a scholarly analysis of rich and varied sources and supplementing key historians’ earlier studies, D’Elia’s work adds new insights into the life and influences of a pivotal American figure. Described in the Journal of the American Medical Association as “magnificent” and cited for its importance by the Institute for Early American History and Culture, this print on demand publication remains an enduring standard in the field of American Revolution scholarship.
Price: $24.99
Pages: 113
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date:
01 January 1974
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9781422375372
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
"D’Elia’s study makes a solid contribution by putting Rush’s bright ideas into the intellectual culture of early America. … This fine study has much in content and analysis that advances knowledge of Rush."
— John A. Schutz
"Donald J. D’Elia attempts to fill a gap that has long existed in the literature of Rush scholarship. Hitherto Rush has appeared as a ‘revolutionary gadfly’ … but D’Elia shows more clearly than anyone else … Rush’s formulation of a coherent philosophy of the American Revolution."
— Roy N. Lokken
"D’Elia’s book is an intensely religious discussion of a man who never lost his religious orientation. … A useful corrective for those who think of the Revolutionary leaders as invariably deists, stoics, or pagans, D’Elia’s study produces enough evidence to put Rush in a credible religious setting, which he never outgrew."
— John M. Coleman
"Rush is remembered for his medical activities and his contribution as a revolutionary patriot to the genesis of America. About the second of these we know less, and Professor D’Elia, an historian, now provides a scholarly analysis of it. … He is able to show that Rush was indeed an outstanding philosophical exponent of the American Revolution. … This work adds not only fresh interpretations of Rush, but also of the Revolution…"
— John A. Schutz
"Donald J. D’Elia attempts to fill a gap that has long existed in the literature of Rush scholarship. Hitherto Rush has appeared as a ‘revolutionary gadfly’ … but D’Elia shows more clearly than anyone else … Rush’s formulation of a coherent philosophy of the American Revolution."
— Roy N. Lokken
"D’Elia’s book is an intensely religious discussion of a man who never lost his religious orientation. … A useful corrective for those who think of the Revolutionary leaders as invariably deists, stoics, or pagans, D’Elia’s study produces enough evidence to put Rush in a credible religious setting, which he never outgrew."
— John M. Coleman
"Rush is remembered for his medical activities and his contribution as a revolutionary patriot to the genesis of America. About the second of these we know less, and Professor D’Elia, an historian, now provides a scholarly analysis of it. … He is able to show that Rush was indeed an outstanding philosophical exponent of the American Revolution. … This work adds not only fresh interpretations of Rush, but also of the Revolution…"
Donald J. D’Elia (1933—2009) was a professor of history for forty years at The State University of New York at New Paltz. Specializing in Early American Republic history, his publications include Benjamin Rush: Philosopher of the American Revolution (1974) and The Spirits of ’76: A Catholic Inquiry (1983). In 1984, New York Governor Mario Cuomo cited D’Elia for his “many years of dedicated service to the humanities.”