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Victoria Johnson, a former New York Public Library Cullman Fellow, is an associate professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College in New York City, where she teaches on the history of New York City.
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Obras de Victoria Johnson

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1969
Género
female
Educación
Yale University (BA, Philosophy)
Columbia University (PhD, Sociology)
Biografía breve
[from author's website]
I am Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College in New York City, where I teach on the history of philanthropy, nonprofits, and New York City. I hold a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Yale.

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really enjoyed this. Had no idea one of our first botanical gardens was located where rockefeller center is now. Lots of interesting characters and historical events framed in a different perspective, with medicine and botany taking central roles.bit depressing that the garden didnt really get its due, but an enjoyable read
 
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cspiwak | 6 reseñas más. | Mar 6, 2024 |
I probably should not have tackled this book during the holidays while I have been doing all the busy holiday prep and recovering from a hip replacement because my powers of concentration were not always sharp, but this is a book I might refer to again and again in trying to understand the world of the post-colonial United States. Provides an overview of the state of medicine, pharmacology and botany in the Early Republic and shows how important science has been in the development of the United States. Detailed research and good writing.… (más)
 
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bschweiger | 6 reseñas más. | Feb 4, 2024 |
A very detailed and enlightening study of a man who would have a profound effect during his day and even today spreading his beliefs on the importance of Botany's benefits to society. David Hosack made this his life's work. He also rubs elbows with many of the founding fathers and is friends with Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr and is present as the doctor at their famous duel. He will continue to be friends with Burr even after its conclusion. This has an amazing amount of information on a variety of topics including New York City and Philadelphia history and the leading political and intellectual leaders of that time.… (más)
 
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muddyboy | 6 reseñas más. | Aug 17, 2020 |
This is a biography of a little known man that was well known in his day; he moved in the highest circles of the Revolutionary War generals and presidents. He was the doctor at the Hamilton-Burr duel. But...this isn't so much a biography of a man as of the history of the early part of the country. It is a story of how New York City went from being a poor second to Philadelphia as a center of art, literature, culture, and science to becoming the city that defines those things for the US. Much of that is due to the subject of this book, and his friends. The main problem I have with this very readable book is that you get almost nothing about the good doctor other than his significant scientific and botanical accomplishments. Wives are mentioned in passing, children are born and die with only a minor digression, making it less a biography than a history. It is not the story of his life so much as the story of the scientific flowering of New York City seen through his works. Overall, it was fascinating reading, and the breadth of the book is astonishing, but I would have liked to see fewer repetitions of key points, a little more detail about the garden, and perhaps including more about some of the women that were crucial in this period. The author does mention at one point that the doctor believed in training girls in botany, and actually did so in his later career, but it is difficult to know that women existed in New York City at this period except when they were losing children, dying in childbirth, or grieving husbands shot in a duel...or paying for their husband's obsessions with money they brought to the marriage. Good, but not great.… (más)
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Devil_llama | 6 reseñas más. | Jul 19, 2020 |

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