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Author Johnson, Victoria, 1969- author.

Title American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic / Victoria Johnson.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018]
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY HOSACK    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY HOSACK, DAVID    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B HOSACK D.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  580.973 JOH    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  580 JOH    DUE 04-11-24
 Granby, F.H. Cossitt Branch - Adult  B HOSACK, DAVID JOH    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  580.973 JOH    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  580.973 JOH    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B HOSACK    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG HOSACK, DAVID    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-436) and index.
Contents Prologue -- "Tear in pieces the doctors" -- "An endless source of innocent delight" -- "Ripping open my belly" -- "He is as good as the theatre" -- "The grass is three feet high in the streets" -- "Doctor, I despair" -- "There are no informed people here" -- "H--k is enough, and even that unnecessary" -- "This delicious banquet" -- "I long to see Captain Lewis" -- "Strange noises, low spirits" -- "Such a piece of downright imposture" -- "You know, better than any man" -- "Instead of creeping along the earth" -- "Your fortunate city" -- "Expulsion from the Garden of Eden" -- "Like a romance" -- Epilogue.
Summary "One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic's first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland by 1810. "Where others saw real estate and power, Hosack saw the landscape as a pharmacopoeia able to bring medicine into the modern age" (Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta). What remains today of America's first botanical garden lies in the heart of midtown, buried beneath Rockefeller Center. 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, Johnson offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature"-- Provided by publisher.
Awards Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2019
Subject Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Medical botanists -- United States -- Biography.
Botany, Medical -- United States.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
Hosack, David, 1769-1835 (OCoLC)fst00135454
Botany, Medical. (OCoLC)fst00836961
Medical botanists. (OCoLC)fst01013752
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9781631494192 (hardcover)
1631494198 (hardcover)
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1631496018 (paperback)
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