Book of the Year - American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia

Come hear author Samuel Forman introduce attendees to Joseph Warren; the nature of medical practice and education in pre-Revolutionary New England; Warren's nationally significant political and military activities culminating at Bunker Hill; and his posthumous influences on the founding of HMS and MGH through younger brother John Warren and nephew John Collins Warren.

The definitive biography of the Revolutionary War doctor and hero. An American doctor, Bostonian, and patriot, Joseph Warren played a central role in the events leading to the American Revolution. This detailed biography of Warren rescues the figure from obscurity and reveals a remarkable revolutionary who dispatched Paul Revere on his famous ride and was the hero of the battle of Bunker Hill, where he was killed in action.

Physician to the history makers of early America, political virtuoso, and military luminary, Warren comes to life in this comprehensive biography meticulously grounded in original scholarship.

About the Author

Samuel A. Forman is an historian and Harvard School of Public Health faculty member. He is educated in the history of the American Revolution as well as the practice of clinical and preventive medicine. Throughout his careers as physician and businessman, he has published and lectured on historical topics that inform current issues.

Forman has written the American Founder’s biography Dr. Joseph Warren – The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty (Pelican deluxe reprinting for the 250^th anniversary of the Revolutionary War, 2025) and the multi-cultural and multi-racial origin account of the American West and Delta South during the Revolutionary Era – Ill-Fated Frontier: Peril and Possibilities in the Early American West (Lyons Press of Rowman and Littlefield).