Profiles in Mental Health Courage
By Patrick J. Kennedy & Stephen Fried
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STEPHEN FRIED
STEPHEN FRIED is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who teaches
at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
He has written seven acclaimed nonfiction books, including the biographies Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time, also Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia; and the mental health memoir A Common Struggle, co-authored with Congressman Patrick Kennedy. Fried also wrote the investigative books Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs and The New Rabbi, as well as a collection of essays on marriage, Husbandry.
His latest book is Rush: Revolution, Madness & the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father (Crown).
A two-time winner of the National Magazine Award, he has written frequently for Vanity Fair, GQ, The Washington Post Magazine, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Glamour, and Philadelphia Magazine.
Fried lectures widely on the subjects of his books and magazine articles, and does editorial consulting. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, author Diane Ayres.
“Fried’s reclamation of this important, overlooked American founder is an invaluable addition to American history collections and a solid recommendation to biography fans.” –Booklist
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“Entertaining…Benjamin Rush has been undeservedly forgotten. In medicine…[and] as a political thinker, he was brilliant.” —The New Yorker
“An amazing life and a fascinating book.” —CBS This Morning
“Perceptive … [a] readable reassessment of Rush’s remarkable career.” —Wall Street Journal
“Superb … reminds us eloquently, abundantly, what a brilliant, original man Benjamin Rush was, and how his contributions to … the United States continue to bless us all.” — Philadelphia Inquirer
“[An] extraordinary and underappreciated man is reinstated to his rightful place in the canon of civilizational advancement in Rush … [a] superb biography.” —Brain Pickings
“Fried, a talented storyteller…has brought Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Rush back to life for modern readers.”—Journal of the American Revolution
“Comprehensive and fascinating … Fried portrays Rush as a complex, flawed person and not just a list of accomplishments … will keep readers engaged until the last page.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A biography with the color, detail and pace of a compelling historical novel.”—The Jewish Journal
“Well-crafted…a biography of a Founding Father, physician and founder of psychiatric medicine. Quite a literary undertaking, and done with skill and grace.” —Lancet Psychiatry
“Anyone who cares about our past and future—politically, medically, spiritually—should read this masterful biography.” –Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy
“A gem of a book.”Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
“The best books are full of surprises. Rush has more of them than any historical biography I have read in ages. What a grand feast and feat.”Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights
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