American Eden

"Whether collecting specimens along the banks of the Hudson River lecturing before a class of rapt medical students or breaking the fever of a young Philip Hamilton David Hosack was an American visionary who has been too long forgotten. Alongside other towering figures of the post-Revolutionary generation he took the reins of a nation. In unearthing the dramatic story of his life [the author] offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature"--Amazon.com.