Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

Books That Shook the World

Christopher Hitchens

158 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative slow-paced
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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...

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