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Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography - A Book That Shook the World (Paperback)
$12.68 - Save $3.21 20% off - RRP $15.89 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man"Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. "Declaration of the Rights of Man", first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. This book demonstrates how Thomas Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the first democratic republic, whose revolution is the only example that still speaks to us: the USA.
Full description- Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS
- Published: 09 August 2007
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Human Rights | Civil Rights & Citizenship
- ISBN 13: 9781843546283 ISBN 10: 1843546280
- Sales rank: 55,290
Full description for Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man"
Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. "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 uprising of the French people, Paine's text is a passionate defence of man's inalienable rights. In "Rights of Man", Paine argues against monarchy and outlines the elements of a successful republic, including public education, pensions and relief of the poor and unemployed, all financed by income tax. Since its publication, "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned and suppressed but here the polemicist and commentator Christopher Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Above all, Hitchens demonstrates how Thomas Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the first democratic republic, whose revolution is the only example that still speaks to us: the United States of America.
