Sam Forman will provide an illustrated lecture on Revolutionary-era Bostonian Joseph Warren. He will focus on his life and the posthumous arc of Warren’s legacy from national fame to near-total obscurity and perhaps back again. Joseph Warren is now dimly remembered as the person who dispatched Paul Revere on his famous ride, and as the hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Through his research, Forman reveals Dr. Warren as a humanist, devoting his career to improving health care for all, while making real the concepts of liberty and representative government. Samuel Forman is an historian, Harvard University adjunct faculty member, businessman, and physician. He is the author of the just-released definitive biography, Dr. Joseph Warren – The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty.
Event info provided by the Boston Public Library.
