Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty - Hardcover

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Sam A. Forman is a physician, educator, and local historian. He is the president of Oak and Ivy Health Systems, Inc. and a visiting scientist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Throughout his successful careers as a physician, military officer, and businessman, he has published and lectured on historical topics that affect current issues. Forman lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty, also published by Pelican.

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"Sam Forman has applied meticulous scholarship and an engaging style to resurrect a medical life among American founding figures. Readers will be amazed at personal and clinical details of what was surely the most unusual medical practice in all of America's history. After reading [this book], my understanding of America's Revolutionary heritage will never be the same."

-William M. McDermott, Jr., MD
executive vice president (retired) of the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine

Joseph Warren, the forgotten founding father, passionately blended ideology and action-organizing the real Boston Tea Party, leading the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, sending Paul Revere on his iconic ride, and heroically fighting at the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he was killed in action.

He has had a broad and lasting impact, deserving of a more prominent place in American memory. Beloved and famous in his time for his political and military exploits, Warren was also idolized by former presidents John Adams and Ronald Reagan as a martyr to the American cause and as one of our most inspirational historical personalities.
This fascinating biography sheds light on his illicit activities as a resurrectionist obtaining dead bodies for anatomical study, his deep friendship with famous patients like John and Abigail Adams, his authorship of the foundational Suffolk Resolves, the spy ring he ran out of his medical practice on the eve of the Revolutionary War, an alleged relationship with the stunning wife of the enemy general as a source of military intelligence, and the arc of his posthumous legacy from the pinnacle of fame to obscurity, and perhaps back again.

Warren was a humanitarian, devoting his career to improving health care for all and involving himself with government-sponsored health care-all the while making real the concepts of liberty and representative government.
Meticulously grounded in original scholarship, this is the definitive biography of American founder Dr. Joseph Warren. Scholar-physician Samuel A. Forman has adapted innovative methods in historiography, medicine, and forensics to produce a rousing volume worthy of its subject.

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"Had Warren failed at the Siege of Boston, the Continental Congress and all its high ideals would have come to nothing. Warren's insistence, during that formative precedent-setting interlude, on the strict separation of representative government from a subordinate military, is an enduring contribution to the American experience. It was a gift he purchased with his life. America owes Warren much, the least of which is knowing his story and understanding his aspect of our nation's beginnings."

-Paul Bracken, professor of political science, Yale University,
and author of Fire in the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age

Dr. Joseph Warren conducted what was surely the most unusual medical practice in America's early history. He collected key military intelligence prior to the Revolutionary War from a network of spies acting as patients and was among early American doctors to use dead bodies for anatomical study. However, that is only part of his story.

By virtue of directing the original Minute Men, Warren is considered a founder of the Army National Guard. He served as president of the 1775 Massachusetts Provincial Congress, where he advocated for a military accountable only to elected government, and as a Freemasonry Grand Master. Finally, as a military general, Warren was the first high-ranking American officer killed during the Revolutionary War.

This definitive biography is accompanied by an enlightening series of appendices, which include a forensic reconstruction of the doctor's account books.

Dr. Samuel A. Forman has a personal mission to increase enthusiasm for American core values. He became intrigued by the references to Joseph Warren, whose r�sum� defied belief that one person could do many things, much less do them simultaneously, well, and frequently lead them.

Early in his research for this book, Forman attended lectures on the American Revolution by Prof. David Hackett Fischer, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of books on the era, who commented that "it may take a physician to tell Warren's story properly." Making sense of opaque eighteenth-century physician's account books, a feat of both forensic analysis and medical historical scholarship, turned out to be the elusive key to understanding Joseph Warren's life experiences. It is an accomplishment that only a scholar-physician could hope to achieve.

A father of five, Forman lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.