Thomas Paine
Subtitle: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: September 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780670037889
Subjects: Paine, Thomas,; Revolutionaries; Historical - General; Biography And Autobiography; United States - 18th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Political scientists; Biography/Autobiography; Political; Historical - U.S.; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; United States; United States - General; 1737-1809; Biography
First sentence: JUST BEFORE DAYBREAK on or about September 25 in the year 1819, a fifty-six-year-old Englishman by the name of William Cobbett found himself twenty-two miles due north of New York City, stumbling pink-faced and ardent through the wild blackness of Westche