Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Tom Paine: A Political Life

Tom Paine: A Political Life

Keane, John

Paperback

Series: Grove Great Lives

Historical FiguresPolitical Biographies

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 0802139647
ISBN13: 9780802139641
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jan 21 2003
Pages: 672
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 -- Pauline Maier, The New York Times Book Review It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superceded....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

Also in

Historical Figures

View All