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Title	:	Tom Paine: A Political Life
Author	:	John Keane
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 576 pages
Published	:	January 21st 2003 by Grove Press (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Biography. Politics. History. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History

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"More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world." So begins John Keane's magnificent and award-winning (the Fraunces Tavern Book Award) biography of one of democracy's greatest champions. Among friends and enemies alike, Paine earned a reputation as a notorious pamphleteer, one of the greatest political figures of his day, and the author of three best-selling books, Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. Setting his compelling narrative against a vivid social backdrop of prerevolutionary America and the French Revolution, John Keane melds together the public and the shadowy private sides of Paine's life in a remarkable piece of scholarship. This is the definitive biography of a man whose life and work profoundly shaped the modern age. "Provide[s] an engaging perspective on England, America, and France in the tumultuous years of the late eighteenth century." -- Pauline Maier, The New York Times Book Review "It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superceded.... It is a stylish, splendidly erudite work." -- Terry Eagleton, The Guardian

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Original Title:	Tom Paine: A Political Life (Grove Great Lives)
ISBN:	0802139647 (ISBN13: 9780802139641)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (1996)

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Tom Paine is a freedom hero. Despite a lack of formal education, he was an agitator for freedom in three different countries: United States (before they were the United States), United Kingdom, and France. In each country he wrote a seminal exhortation to action: Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. His war on tyranny by states and religion is still relevant today.Keane reveals the price Paine paid for his agitation. In France he was imprisoned and daily feared the guillotine.

When it shall be said in any country in the world, "My poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive" when these things can be said then may that country boast of its constitution and its government. The Rights of Man Part TwoToday I found an old document on which my "best reads of 2012" were listed. The non-fiction entries wereThe Spanish Civil War: A Very

An exhaustive biography of a Founding Father forgotten and ill-used, rich in specific political detail, so as to bring us to a more intimate understanding of the American revolution and its aftermath as well as to see Mr. Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason, as a contemporary with much to teach us in 2008.

Second reading of this excellent biography, Paine was a significant thinker with an effective political voice who developed many ideologies underpinning modern civil society. Where is this thought and voice for our time?

Though somewhat hagiographical, it confirms much of what critical biographers had written about the rogue. Bends over backwards trying to explain a number of his questionable actions.

Keane's biography weaves Paine's political philosophy and activism in context with the major cultural, religious, and scientific developments of his time. In this respect, his work is an political and intellectual history of the transatlantic world as seen through the prism of Paine's revolutionary writings and actions. Inasmuch as he offers insight into Paine's character, oftentimes it is the character of Paine's political detractors that comes more sharply into focus. Paine was a party to the

The biography was well researched and well written. The author's appreciation and admiration for Paine (which at times was excessive) didn't detract from an overall insightful and illuminating read. I was reminded how little I knew of a person so important to the cause of American independence and equally important as a political philosopher. While the author, at times, gave Paine too much credit for some of the concepts he championed - almost suggesting Paine as the originator rather than the