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    A Life’s Work Gone to Seed

    Jun 04, 2018 4 minutes
    Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg

    AMERICAN EDEN: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

    BY VICTORIA JOHNSON

    Liveright, 480 pp., $29.95

    SOMETIME AROUND 1820, the U.S. Mint struck a medal designed by Moritz Fürst in honor of Dr. David Hosack, who is the subject of Victoria Johnson’s . On the obverse of the medal, Hosack is shown in profile. He’s a solid man, with a substantial curve of flesh joining his plump chin to his neck. He has pendulous earlobes and a curious coiffure that licks flamelike toward the top of the coin, perhaps as a sign of his energy, his industriousness, his irrepressible desire to set

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