Benjamin Rush: The Most Important Founding Father You’ve Never Heard of

Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Chief Surgeon in Washington’s army fervent abolitionist, and a man of faith. No revolutionary leader more fully embodied the political and religious ideals of the Declaration and the Constitution than Dr. Benjamin Rush.

Joseph Loconte, PhD, Director of the Rivendell Center in New York City, is a Presidential Scholar at New College of Florida and the C.S. Lewis Scholar for Public Life at Grove City College. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at Sagamore Institute, and as a Senior Fellow at Founding Forward and at the Trinity Forum. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918 (Harper Collins, 2015)