Coming up: A return to America's Eden
Editor's note: Coverage of Attorney General William Barr's letter to Congress summarizing the Mueller report pre-empted our conversation with Victoria Johnson. This segment will air on an alternative date yet to be determined.
He was personal physician to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, a brilliant professor and the creator of America's first botanical garden. But the fascinating story of David Hosack has largely been lost to history — until now.
Author and historian Victoria Johnson discovered Hosack and unearthed his story in "American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic," a book that was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for nonfiction. Johnson transports readers back 200 years to a backwater town called New York City that Hosack championed because he believed it could be a great cultural center someday.
On Monday, listen to a conversation between Johnson and Steph Curtis, who is filling in for Kerri Miller, as they discuss an early American who influenced botany, culture and medical research.
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