"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." "History: Reviews of New Books
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"[An] exciting book about Paine's life and principles." Christopher Hitchens, "Newsday"
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- ISBN10 0226033392
- ISBN13 9780226033396
- Publish Date 3 August 1990 (first published March 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 206
- Language English