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Thomas Paine's Rights of man : a biography
- Title
- Thomas Paine's Rights of man : a biography / Christopher Hitchens.
- Author
- Hitchens, Christopher.
- Publication
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 07-4603 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 158 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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 here, polemicist and commentator Christopher Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Hitchens, a political descendant of the great pamphleteer, 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)--From publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Books that changed the world
- Uniform Title
- Books that changed the world (New York, N.Y.)
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2006.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-146) and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 07-4603
- ISBN
- 0871139553
- 9780871139559
- LCCN
- 2007060701
- OCLC
- 80181370
- Author
- Hitchens, Christopher.
- Title
- Thomas Paine's Rights of man : a biography / Christopher Hitchens.
- Imprint
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.
- Series
- Books that changed the worldBooks that changed the world (New York, N.Y.)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-146) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 07-4603