RaveThe Wall Street JournalEarly America’s foremost botanist was also New York’s greatest institution builder, a man of ‘Industry and Talents.’ ... In her captivating biography American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic Victoria Johnson describes how, at a time when \'Philadelphians thought they inhabited the Athens of America,\' Hosack helped to tip the scales in New York’s favor ... Along the way, she restores this attractive polymath—who today is mainly remembered, thanks to a small role in a certain hip-hop musical, as the doctor-in-attendance at the 1804 duel between two of his patients, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton —to his rightful place in American history. The rescue from oblivion is long overdue.
