Table of Contents

Preface, W. A. Speck; Chapter 1 England, W. A. Speck; Chapter 2 Common Sense, W. A. Speck; Chapter 3 ‘The Times that Tried Men’s Souls’, W. A. Speck; Chapter 4 Building Bridges, W. A. Speck; Chapter 5 Rights of Man, W. A. Speck; Chapter 6 The Age of Reason, W. A. Speck; Chapter 7 Theophilanthropist, W. A. Speck; Chapter 8 American Citizen?, W. A. Speck; Chapter 9 New York, W. A. Speck;

About the Author

W. A. Speck

Reviews

'a comprehensive and thoughtful work that deserves to be not only in academic libraries but also those of anyone seriously interested in Thomas Paine... [it] must surely become one of the most important of Paine biographies and deserves a wide readership' Journal of Radical History 'brings out the important points in Paine's career ... admirable.' The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer