"It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superseded... It is a stylish, splendidly erudite work." -- Terry Eagleton, The Guardian




"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 bestselling books, Common Sense, 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.





"[A] richly detailed... disciplined labor of scholarship and love, an exemplar of the rewards of a gargantuan effort at historical research... In short, buy it; it's definitive." -- Library Journal

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• Publication Date: September 1, 2018
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• Print Length: 676 Pages
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