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Product Identifiers
PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-100802139647
ISBN-139780802139641
eBay Product ID (ePID)2389849
Product Key Features
Book TitleTom Paine : a Political Life
Number of Pages576 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicUnited States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Revolutionary, Political, Civics & Citizenship, Historical
GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJohn Keane
Book SeriesGrove Great Lives Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight31.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-029961
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal320.51/092 B
Synopsis"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 -- Pauline Maier, The New York Times Book Review "It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superceded....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
LC Classification NumberJC178.V5K43 2003
