Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
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Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man , first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable rights. Since its publication, Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted. But in Thomas Paine's Rights of Man , the polemicist and commentator Christopher Hitchens, "at his characteristically incisive best," marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness ( The Times , London). Hitchens is a political descendant of the great pamphleteer, "a Tom Paine for our troubled times." ( The Independent , London) In this "engaging account of Paine's life and times [that is] well worth reading" he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the United States, and how, "in a time when both rights and reason are under attack," Thomas Paine's life and writing "will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend." ( New Statesman )
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0871139553
ISBN13:9780871139559
Release Date:July 2007
Publisher:Atlantic Monthly Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.63 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"
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