Description: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man "Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Greathas 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.”
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Book Title: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Item Length: 7.7in
Item Width: 5in
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Emigration & Immigration, Human Rights, History & Theory, Historical
Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 5 oz
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
