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Tom Paine - A Political Life (Paperback, 1st American ed)
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Tom Paine - A Political Life (Paperback, 1st American ed)
Series: Grove Great Lives
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"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. "Provide s] an engaging perspective on England, America, and
France in the tumultuous years of the late eighteenth century." --
Pauline Maier, The New York Times Book Review "It is hard to
imagine this magnificent biography ever being superceded.... It is
a stylish, splendidly erudite work." -- Terry Eagleton, The
Guardian
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