Tom Paine - A Political Life

"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 Keanes magnificent and award-winning (the Fraunces Tavern Book Award) biography of one of democracys 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 Paines life in a remarkable piece of scholarship. This is the definitive biography of a man whose life and work profoundly shaped the modern age.

Product details

• Authors: John Keane
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2003
• EAN: 9780802139641
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3964-1
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 48 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: Grove Great Lives; Grove Great Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education