| Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography Contributor(s): Hitchens, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802143830 ISBN-13: 9780802143839 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Thomas Paines "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paines book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 323.5 |
| Series: Books That Changed the World |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 158 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, he vividly introduces Paine and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, the world's foremost defense of democracy. 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, and the key to his reputation. Ever since the day of publication in 1791, Declaration of the Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but in Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Famous as a polemicist and provocative commentator, Hitchens is a political descendent of the great pamphleteer. In this engaging work he demonstrates how Thomas Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the United States of America, and how "in a time when both rights and reason are under attack, the life and writing of Thomas Paine will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend." |