Paine

David Freeman Hawke

ISBN 10: 0060117842 / ISBN 13: 9780060117849

Published by Harper & Row January 1974, 1974

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paine
• Publisher: Harper & Row January 1974
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060117842
• ISBN 13: 9780060117849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

David Freeman Hawke's biography of Thomas Paine is reissued here in paperback. Hawke describes a life of incredible diversity, from Paine's humble beginnings as a corset maker in England, through the dramatic roles he played in the American and French Revolutions, his friendships with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, his imprisonment in France during the Terror, his trial and banishment from England for publishing "The Rights of Man", and the pathos of his declining years. Paine emerges from this book as a complex, flawed man, temperamental and jealous of his reputation, but also scholarly, gentle and affectionate.

From the Back Cover

Thomas Paine lived a life of great diversity, from poor beginnings through the dramatic roles he played in the American and French revolutions.Temperamental and jealous of his reputation, Paine was nevertheless a gentle and unworldly man. In this portrait he comes to life as one of the great revolutionary idealists.