num_pages: 206
description: "A lively discussion of the life and writings of one of the premier revolutionaries of the eighteenth century. [Ayer's] chapters alternate between the externals of Paine's life and career in England, America, and France and analyses of Common Sense, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason , other significant but less well known writings, and Paine's anticipations of the welfare state."— Reviews of New Books"[An] exciting book about Paine's life and principles."—Christopher Hitchens, Newsday
language: English
title: Thomas Paine
titlecomplete: Thomas Paine
genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Philosophy
ratings_count: 10
publisher: University of Chicago Press