Literary Career
Flexner wrote other historical biographies, including The Young Hamilton (on Alexander Hamilton), Mohawk Baronet (on Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet), and The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John Andre. He wrote many books on the history of American art, including a highly-regarded life of the American painter John Singleton Copley. He co-authored William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine (1941) with his father, Simon Flexner, M.D. His uncle, Abraham Flexner, was the noted educator whose report of 1910 led to the reform of United States medical schools.
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