Tom Paine: A Political Life (Grove Great Lives)

by JohnKeane (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $23.24

  More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world. So begins John Keane's magnificent and award-winning (the Fraunces Tavern Book Award) biography of one of democracy's greatest champions. Among friends and enemies alike, Paine earned a reputation as a notorious pamphleteer, one of the greatest political figures of his day, and the author of three best-selling books, Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.

  Setting his compelling narrative against a vivid social backdrop of prerevolutionary America and the French Revolution, John Keane melds together the public and the shadowy private sides of Paine's life in a remarkable piece of scholarship. This is the definitive biography of a man whose life and work profoundly shaped the modern age.

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.25

  A biography of Tom Paine, the author of Rights of Man and Common Sense . It describes his early life in England as well as his role as a key pamphleteer in the American Revolution. It also covers his part in the drafting of France's 1772 constitution and his narrow escape from the guillotine.