The Trouble with Tom
The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2010
288 pages
978-1-4088-2063-6 (ISBN)
Description
The author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man, a radical on the run from the law in London, a founding father of the United States of America, a senator of revolutionary France, Thomas Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. He was a walking revolution in human form - the most dangerous man alive. But in death Paine's story turns truly bizarre - his bones were taken from New York to London and eventually disappeared. In Paris, London and New York, in bars, grocers, shops and national libraries, crossing paths along the way with, among others, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, William Cobbett, Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin and even Lord Bryon, Paul Collins sets himself the challenge of finding out what happened to Paine's bones, and ends up telling one of the most extraordinary stories of modern history.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-2063-6 (9781408820636)
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01/2006
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Person
Paul Collins is the author of Sixpence House and Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey into the Lost History of Autism. He edits the Collins Library for McSweeney's Books, and his work has appeared in New Scientist, the Village Voice, and Business 2.0.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Here
- The End
- Committed to the Ground
- The Bone Grubbers
- There
- The Talking Heads
- Personal Effects
- Comfort for the Ruptured
- Everywhere
- The Mornington Crescent Game
- Forgetting
- Eternity in a Box
- (Elsewhere)
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Author
- By the same Author
- eCopyright
