
Tom Paine
A Political Life
John Keane(Author)
Black Cat (Publisher)
Published on 21. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
672 pages
978-0-8021-3964-1 (ISBN)
Description
"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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-3964-1 (9780802139641)
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