April 28, 2026
7pm - 8pm
Bringing our botanical winter book club to a close and moving into our summer celebrating America 250 and the revolutionary period, this April we're reading Victoria Johnson's American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic.
About the book: On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson River. He was bound for a New Jersey dueling ground to settle his bitter dispute with Aaron Burr. Hamilton took just two men with him: his “second” for the duel, and Dr. David Hosack.
As historian Victoria Johnson reveals in her groundbreaking biography, Hosack was one of the few points the duelists did agree on. Summoned that morning because of his role as the beloved Hamilton family doctor, he was also a close friend of Burr. A brilliant surgeon and a world-class botanist, Hosack―who until now has been lost in the fog of history―was a pioneering thinker who shaped a young nation.
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