New audiobook release: The autobiography of Benjamin Rush

Our Founding Fathers left us many wonderful works with which to learn more about their lives and beliefs, many of which are in the form of a multitude of letters written to other people or specific-topic-based works. Perhaps the best well-known topic-based work of the Founders is the Federalist Papers, produced by three Founders over the course of some months.

Benjamin Rush did something different though, producing a short autobiography about his own life. I do believe there are others who had autobiographies as well but I think they were exceedingly rare among the Founding generation.

I suspect very few people have read Rush's autobiography in recent times. With the more convenient method of listening to an audio book, that consumption level will increase and that is a good thing for us all. The more we know about our Founding Fathers and the more (hopefully) we attempt to be like them the better off we are as Americans.