Good Law | Bad Law

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Steve Fried, author of the new book: “Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father.”  Steve and Aaron discuss the life and impact Dr. Rush had on the founding of our country.   In 1776, 30-year-old Dr. Benjamin Rush was one of the youngest men to sign the Declaration of Independence.  A consummate chronicler of events and conversations, Dr. Rush’s journals and letters provide fascinating detail and insight into the founding time.  As Steve recounts, Dr. Rush was centrally involved in knowing and influencing many of the founding events: He counseled John Adams as Adams arrived for the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia; he was an organizer of the protests against England’s tax on tea, which led to the Boston Tea Party;  he worked as an editor and proponent of Thomas Paine, the author of Common Sense; he was intimately involved, as a leadi